Efraim Sevela's story "Male Conversation in a Russian Bath" - a kind of new "Decameron" - is rightfully considered one of the author's most famous works. At the heart of the plot: three high-ranking and well-lived friends, Astakhov, Zuev and Lunin, meet on vacation in a government sanatorium. They shut up in a comfortable bathhouse on the territory of the sanatorium and under the influence of bath and wine fumes, shawl from their own frankness, begin to tell each other about women from their lives..