About the book: 2013 / Late USSR. The song “Beautiful is far away, don’t be cruel to me” is heard from all the screens, and a cadet at the Higher Military Rocket School is having dreams about the future. Terrible dreams about the imminent collapse of the Soviet Union and the death of everyone dear to it. And the goal of his life becomes to prevent this nightmare from becoming a reality! Will he be able to prevent the inevitable? Is it possible to change the future of the whole world by changing your own destiny? What lengths is he willing to go to save his loved ones? Will he fight for his home to the last drop of blood - or will he prefer to flee the doomed country? Is he capable of betraying his homeland for the sake of his family by selling nuclear weapons abroad? Is it possible to deceive evil rock and do we have a future??..