Duraki i umniki. Gazetnyy roman

V molodezhnoy gazete yuzhnogo goroda Blagopoluchenska rabotaet kompaniya umnyh, veselyh i bespechnyh zhurnalistov. Oni lyubyat svoyu gazetu, drug druga i, kazhetsya, nichto ne mozhet narushit' privychnogo hoda veschey, dazhe takoe sobytie, kak smert' Brezhneva... V etot den' v redakcii proishodyat sobytiya, o kotoryh rasskazyvaetsya v pervoy chasti gazetnogo romana. No uzhe v sleduyuschey chasti my vstrechaemsya s temi zhe geroyami spustya pyatnadcat' let, v napryazhennoy obstanovke postperestroechnyh peremen. K tomu zhe v Blagopoluchenske razvorachivaetsya kampaniya po vyboram gubernatora oblasti. Odnim iz desyati pretendentov na etot post neozhidanno dlya vseh stanovitsya byvshiy sotrudnik molodezhnoy gazety. Vyyasnyaetsya, chto ego kandidaturu podderzhivaet Moskva, no ne hotyat podderzhivat' byvshie kollegi, i na eto u nih est' svoi prichiny...