This novel covers the entire twentieth century. Here are the adventures of a typical "Sovetsky" boy, and sex, and friendship, and love, and war: "that" war, it turns out, has not gone anywhere, has not been forgotten, has not stopped changing us today. The brutal memories of the protagonist are now and then replaced by the merciless reflection of his "egg-headed" alter ego. Meetings with very different people - SS man at rest, employee of the Kharkiv emergency, sister (and prototype of Lolita?..) Vladimir Nabokov... The story of one, no, two, no, even three crimes. So what is it? Roman? Memories? God knows...