Summary

This film about the process of technical discovery, insight, and the "theory of the internal explosion" of man is based on the real facts and events of 1988 in the USSR related to the implementation of the treaty with the Americans on the elimination of medium- and short-range missiles. And 1966 - related to the creation and demonstration launches of missiles in front of French President General De Gaulle. And the backbone of the plot was the story of the physicist and lyricist, the uncle of the author of the film, Anatoly Grigoryevich Istratov - the author of the technical monograph "The Theory of aluminum Gorenje". Without the key discovery described in the monograph, not a single solid-fuel rocket would have flown.