The “Prometheus” student design bureau established in Kazan in 1962 was a true school of innovators. A top that spins quickly does not fall thanks to the gyroscopic effect, but when the speed slows down the top stops spinning and falls. Sasha, who is 20 years old, leads an ordinary life in a city of more than a million inhabitants in the south of Russia. In his memory images arise from his childhood and life with his father and a wild wolf: one day his father took little Sacha from her alcoholic mother and soon a wild wolf cub appeared in the apartment.