Due to a very dry year, the khan ordered the entire young population to go in search of better places and leave the old people at home. All the old people were left to die and only one boy, risking his life, took his grandfather with him, hiding him in a large box. On the road, three times the wisdom of the old man helped everyone, and having learned that it was the old man who helped, the khan ordered his soldiers to take all the old men left behind with them...

When describing the deterioration of people's morals during the disintegration of socialist society, it is shown through the differences in urban and rural life and the changes in people's behavior.

Serezhkin's service in the new district began in exceptional and dramatic circumstances. A zoologist who studied artiodactyls was killed on the stone shore of the Bald Spit. There's only one piece of evidence at the crime scene- a size 37 footprint. There may be a woman involved...