Drama is the unbearable life of the elderly spouses Margarita Charmois and Emil Buen in the novel "The Cat" (1966). She is the spoiled, "thinly" raised daughter of a manufacturer, the widow of a salon violinist; he is also a widower, a former bricklayer, a simple worker. Both of them do not find, and they are not looking for an opportunity to somehow arrange a joint life, to meet each other halfway.