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Zhenya's childhood is interrupted by an event that changes his life forever. The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant uproots hundreds of thousands of people. The young boy is caught up in the whirlwind of evacuation. All the family members ended up in different places: the children were in pioneer camps, the father was cleaning up the accident at the nuclear power plant, and the mother was waiting for everyone at home.
The author conveys life and lies, compassion and contempt, mutual aid and hypocrisy in the country called the USSR through the perception of an eleven-year-old boy. A boy who lived through the summer when the sun turned black.