Kniga vospominaniy o roditelyakh i blizkikh, prozhivshikh vsyu zhizn' v Ashkhabade, postepenno prevrashchaetsya v rasskaz o Turkmenii, o burnykh istoricheskikh sobytiyakh, razvorachivayushchikhsya v etom krae pod oslepitel'nym aziatskim solntsem, ob udivitel'nykh i yarkikh lichnostyakh, sud'by kotorykh svyazany so stanovleniem etogo kraya, s ego istoriey i kul'turoy. Generaly Rossiyskoy imperii, legendarnye deyateli epokhi stanovleniya sovetskoy vlasti, natsional'nye lidery, uchenye s mirovym imenem, izvestnye sovetskie rezhissery, poety i artisty - vse oni ostavili yarkiy sled v istorii Turkmenii. O nikh i o prostykh lyudyakh, kotorye stroili Ashkhabad, vosstanavlivali ego posle zemletryaseniya, o russkikh i turkmenakh, o lyubvi i zhizni rasskazyvaet eta kniga.