Leningrad 1970-1980s. The unofficial life of the city becomes brighter and bolder than that on the pages of official newspapers. Leningraders of those years - rockers, freethinking poets, karate players of semi-forbidden sports sections, theatrical figures, the first geniuses of the market economy - all of them will very soon become the main actors of the city and the Russian scene as a whole. In the meantime, they have to exist in the rapidly changing everyday life of late Leningrad. The book of Lev Lurie, based on dozens of interviews of witnesses and participants in the informal life of the city on the Neva, tells about this seemingly immovable, quiet era.