Zaurbek Kharitonovich Gutiev is over 80 years old. All the same, on the morning of 1 September 2002 he sets off, as usual, to celebrate the Day of Knowledge in the school where he worked all his life: in the School No. 1 of Beslan. Together with his former pupils and colleagues he lived through the horror of captivity, and survived to testify on behalf of the living and the dead victims of Beslan.