Maya Ganina's book about our vast land, about its people. The writer visited construction sites in Siberia, the Pamirs, the Commander Islands, Kamchatka, and Lake Baikal - different villages and cities of Russia, discovering new shores and new people from year to year. Railway builders, geologists, collective farmers - each with its own destiny, character. The author's fate is also connected with them. Maya Ganina sincerely tells how her own attitude changed during trips and meetings with new people, the need to see her own and experience the difficult grew, and her intransigence to falsehood, idleness and indifference grew.