England between the two World Wars. A real paradise of prosperity and prosperity, reasonable, enlightened conservatism and reasonable, enlightened intellectual liberalism? Or - a rotten swamp in which all normal human beings perish, where a person, unlike others, is doomed to become an object ridicule, and high ideals have long turned into fiction? Aldington laughs at what he sees and describes. But, as in “Death of a Hero,” laughter pro turns into evil and bitter sarcasm, and the farce of “real paradise” into a merciless tragicomedy .