There is such a special breed of people in the world - inspired ragamuffins. They never have a penny to their name, but everywhere they are the life of the party. In the past of each of them there is a series of abandoned wives, children, houses and professions, and in the future - guaranteed poverty and quiet insanity. The quixotes of our time - writers, artists, musicians - go through life under the banner of non-covetousness and art, with a timid hope of immortality...