About the book: year / The thorny path of searching for your “I”, the path of mistakes, ordeals and broken dreams. The road leading straight from cloudless childhood... to a “bright future”. But... will the sun smile on all of them there, beyond the horizon of growing up? Will it be kind, gentle... caring, caring? Will Ali burn to the ground... sparing neither flesh nor soul? Will the light... at the end of the tunnel be a way out... from the darkness of troubles, or will it become the farewell shine of the headlamp, the spotlight of the train, whose driver... is it too late to hit the brakes?.. If the insipid, defiant, creepy, strange, vile truth of life, “ frostbitten”, eccentric romance and broken dreams of “little people” do not frighten, then welcome. A lot of obscene language, which in some places managed to be bashfully covered up***. WARNING. Events and characters are not honey: rude, vulgar, primitive, crazy... at times stupid and reckless. Not chernukha, but not sweet syrup either. Oh, so, students; bandits; theme of wealth, scrip and prison; rape; murder; revenge and forgiveness; friendship and betrayal; the topic of family relationships (brothers and sisters, parents and children); searching for your place in the sun, happiness, love and purpose; theme of naive dreams and lost hopes; theme of bad luck and envy; unhappy love; the destructive influence of bias, stereotypes, hasty conclusions, narrow thinking (captured by one’s own disappointments and troubles); theme of fear and reckless courage; the theme of desires, actions and their consequences, etc....