In the tradition of black humor, now popular in the West, the story “The Desired Child” is carried out, where a certain housewife at length and with pathos explains to an agent of the social insurance department who visited her how she spends the paid money on the “adored” child whom she has taken in for upbringing. her department of the amount. Having enjoyed the flow of her eloquence, the agent finally interrupts the performance with a spectacular remark: the department learned that the child died more than a year ago.