At first playfully, and then seriously, the heroine falls in love with her friend's husband, who fights for social justice. Then there will be an arrest, exhausting interrogations of a police officer fascinated by her, involvement in the death of her lover. And that's not all...
In 1913, chance brings together a young high school teacher Yurkevich, his first love Lida, a wealthy landowner Lundyshev and a German watchmaker Karfunkel at a small railway station. Seven years later, in the early twenties, and then another seven years later, the heroes meet here again. Their destinies are different, the country changes, their lives change...
Victor Grach and Leonid Osadchy are dangerous criminals. Considering himself a strong and independent person, who is allowed everything, Victor wants to see his younger brother Shurka as well. And he, obeying the authority of Victor, becomes an involuntary participant in serious crimes and, in the end, is in the dock. A sentence is not passed for a long time, because it is important for a judge to understand the degree of guilt of each of the brothers, to get to the bottom of the truth, to find out what turned ordinary guys into robbers and killers.
The new reality changes the usual life in the village of Babylon. Attempts to communize the small town are met with resistance from the rich people living in the town. The Red Army finally puts down the resistance. Amidst the resistance philosopher Fabian returns to Babylon and tries to prevent bloodshed, but he meets a tragic fate.
The artificial brain Sig, created under the guidance of Professor Yavorovsky, disappeared in one of the research institutes. Meanwhile, strange phenomena are happening in the city: all the zoo animals have been released from their cages, and the books in the city's book depository have been mixed up. And Whitefish, having mastered the accumulated experience of science and fiction accumulated by mankind, creates an artificial organism himself, returns to the professor and is soon sent to the constellation Gemini.