About the book: year / An allegorical story about how, under the influence of unbearable living conditions in late Soviet society, many of the best people living in it, completely against their will and desire certain “wings” grow (this is considered by society as a disease), on which these people, again completely against their will, fly somewhere outside the country, not knowing where they will end up; the personal tragedy of the main character, exhausted in the conditions of the monstrous late Soviet life, but not wanting to fly anywhere and in the last days remaining to him trying to do as much as possible for his wife and son, whose wings do not even think of growing.