Andryusha and his fifthgrade comrades in a pile of scrap raw materials found poorly bound typewritten pages with the inscription Attack The guys enthusiastically read this collection of frontline stories Their author Bukin it turns out lives nearby in the next quarter The man is middleaged and sickly however he does not succumb to the blows of fate He devotes all his strength to the preservation of forest wealth and in his free time from these worries he continues to write stories recalling certain episodes of a rich frontline life