Memoirs of Alexander Shatravka - a vivid and important evidence of the recent Soviet past. His ordeals in prisons and psychiatric hospitals clearly illustrate how Soviet laws were implemented in practice, punishing for the desire to take responsibility for their fate, for the desire to be free. Only one of the four friends who decided to break out of the Soviet Union and flee to the United States managed to reach the United States after they were all detained in Finland in 1974 and returned to the USSR. After 30 years, the author (the only one who was lucky enough to fulfill his dream and live in the USA), together with the film crew, travels to Finland, Karelia and Ukraine, recalling the events of those years and meeting with living witnesses of everything that happened. All the events and people in this book are real.