Boris Nosik's heroes are often unsettled, sometimes ridiculous, but always internally free. Freedom is also characteristic of the author's style - light humor and caustic satire, attention to everyday details and unrestrained fantasy coexist in it. The story takes place in a pioneer camp, where a modest bibliographer who accidentally fell into educators falls in love with a pioneer, but does not follow in the footsteps of Nabokov's Humbert...