What did we do while you taught us how to live?

High school students are turning an ordinary Moscow school into a separate state with its own laws and currency - sotok. Remember the game of cardboard circles, popular in the 2000s? A homely tenth grader, Red, becomes a champion and... creates a mafia structure within the school. On the wave of success, he does not notice his rival - eleventh grader Dinara. Under the guise of activism for the benefit of students, she creates her own party, and soon becomes a full-fledged dictator. A clash between the two leaders is inevitable. Who will win? And what awaits the heroes in adulthood?

Ivan Bevz’s novel “What We Did While You Taught Us to Live” is about power and its temptations.