Alexander Letuchiy, also known as Uncle Sasha, is a soldier of the war, which for some reason was called "ATO", - dictates his stories, diary entries to eight-year-old Matveyka. About the experience. About life on the front line, about the ordinary and terrible, when you get used to "the sight of blood, death, even the thought of your own death." Because "death has become the norm of life and without it you can go crazy." But here there is also a place for soldier's brotherhood, humor, mutual help. Only an eyewitness can tell about this - with the smallest details and nuances unknown to the "civil". When do they write a diary? When there is something to say, when you can't help but say. And even when you can't talk anymore. For you are no more. You have become a guardian angel. But the soul, as before, hurts - the diary is written. And the child gave you a name - "Andersen". Although everything told is not a fairy tale at all ...