1991 god. Avgust. Na Lubi︠a︡nke svalen bronzovyĭ istukan, i mnogim kazhetsi︠a︡, chto zdesʹ i seĭchas rozhdaetsi︠a︡ novai︠a︡ strana. V ėti ėĭforicheskie dni obychnyĭ sovetskiĭ podrostok poluchaet neobychnyĭ podarok - vtaĭne napisannui︠u︡ babushkoĭ istorii︠u︡ semʹi.Ėta istorii︠a︡ dvazhdy porazit ego. V pervyĭ raz - kogda on osoznaet, skolʹkogo on ne znal, pochemu ros kak dichok. A vtoroĭ raz - kogda poĭmet, chto rasskazano - ne vse, chto memuary - lishʹ sposob spri︠a︡tatʹ sredi mnozhestva faktov otsutstvie odnogo zvena: kem byl ego ded, otet︠s︡ ott︠s︡a, chelovek, ni razu ne upomi︠a︡nutyĭ, "vycherknutyĭ" iz teksta. Popytka razgadatʹ ėtu taĭnu stanet sudʹboĭ. A sudʹba privedet v byvshie lageri︠a︡ Kazakhstana, na voi︠u︡i︠u︡shchiĭ Kavkaz, zastavit iskatʹ bezymi︠a︡nnykh arestantov prezhneĭ ėpokhi i propavshikh bez vesti. August 1991. A bronze statue is toppled at Lubyanka, and many feel that a new country is being born here and now. During these euphoric days, an ordinary Soviet teenager receives an unusual gift - a secretly written family history from his grandmother. This story will astonish him twice. The first time, when he realizes how much he didn't know, why he grew up like a wild child. And the second time, when he understands that not everything has been told; that the memoirs are just a way to hide the absence of one link: who his grandfather was, his father's father, a man never mentioned, "erased" from the text. Attempting to unravel this mystery becomes his destiny. And fate will lead him to the former labor camps of Kazakhstan, to the war-torn Caucasus, forcing him to search for nameless prisoners of the past who disappeared without a trace.