About the book: 2016 / Young surgeon Vitaly Levashov faces night duty, and on the same night taxi driver Nikolai Levashov (his namesake) is going on a night flight . Nikolai witnesses a crime: before his eyes, after breaking a window, a girl jumps out from the second floor, escaping from two rapists. Levashov catches up with one of them and detains him along with a police patrol that arrives in time. An ambulance takes the victim to the hospital. But the surgeon on duty, Vitaly Levashov, refuses to help the victim. There is a conflict between him and the emergency doctor Ivan Churyanov: the experienced doctor accuses Levashov of failing to provide medical care. This is a serious professional charge that could affect the future career of a young surgeon. The criminal plot of the story touches on a number of ethical, medical and universal human problems, as old as the world, the duel of good and evil, duty and, conversely, indifference, which are personified by the main characters of the story - taxi driver Nikolai Levashov and his antipode - doctor Vitaly Levashov…