About the book: 1981 / My soul sang The story of the first contact. An ordinary boy, returning home from school, notices an advertisement for admission to an experimental boarding school for gifted overage children. He is an overgrown man: having missed 2 years due to family troubles, Andrei is both in age and emotionally more mature than his classmates. After going through a very strange interview, he unexpectedly finds himself accepted. The school is located in Western Siberia and is completely isolated from the outside world. The classes there are not at all similar to the usual school curriculum, and the teachers all have bird names. And the teenagers who study there have unique abilities: levitation, telepathy, the ability to heal and become invisible. Andrei's own talent has not yet manifested itself, and he has time to take a closer look at the boarding school and its inhabitants, which leads him to an unexpected conclusion. By the way, he really has a special talent - the ability to take on other people's pain..