The book tells about the events that shook the whole country, the whole world - about the earthquake in Armenia on December 7, 1988, about the fight against its consequences, about grief and courage, despair and hope, fraternal international assistance to residents of the affected cities and villages. The author - a Moscow journalist and writer - was one of the eyewitnesses of the natural disaster, so his documentary narrative is permeated with personal feelings and has a special emotional coloring. For a wide range of readers.