A girl named Venya Ryzhik, living in an orphanage after parents abandoned her as an infant, creates "The test tube babies' league" with her orphan peers, declaring their refusal to find the foster family and protesting the apathy of their neglectful parents
The main events take place on the road while the hero is returning home from the war. Memories of war accompany him all the way.
A story of the hard and fateful journey of master glassblower Nikolai Batygin.
