On April 26, 1986, a terrible catastrophe occurred in the territory of the Soviet Union, which changed the whole universe - the reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Of course, from the point of view of the universe, the lives of thousands of people are a small drop. But these thousands of people were the first to feel that something extraordinary, something terrible had happened. And that life would no longer be as it was. That you can't drink that water, eat those apples, breathe that air ... That only diseases, pain and sorrow are ahead. , so-called self-settlers - those who eventually returned to their homes despite the bans and radiation, because they stayed there all their lives. In this book you will not find stories about the causes of this terrible event or about the plan to evacuate and eliminate the consequences of the disaster. There are only personal tragic stories in it - about love, about diseases, about struggle ... And these stories, like voices in a choir, merge into one prayer. In the Chernobyl prayer ...