The main character returns from his small homeland to St. Petersburg, stopping in one of the Siberian cities to meet with friends. In the laconic nature of the plot - the depth of the narrative, in dialogues - characters, in stories - life and death. The prose of V. Aksenov, like the Universe, tightening with its inexplicable abyss, plunges into the secrets of the human soul. Time here, forming the multidimensionality of artistic space, thickens, thickens and seems to stop in eternity, forming a vanishing point by the lines of the past, present and future.