In the works of the Moscow writer A. Fedorov, criminals, with all their calculations and tricks, appear as they look in everyday life - people who have committed a crime against human nature. The author writes about this knowledgeably, since he is a doctor in a psychiatric hospital and, due to the nature of his work, met the heroes of his works many times. However, it is not only criminals that occupy the author’s attention. A violation of the internal balance of a person’s spiritual world, leading to unusual, unjustified actions, deeds - the author talks about this, unraveling the tangle of events from that crisis, after which ordinary life stops and illnesses or crimes begin.