In this novel, I tried to give my interpretation to three literary trends at once - for children (later for them, based on this novel, the story “Denis’s Adventures in the Painted World” was written), teenagers and adults, fully established individuals, uniting them into one book. If they ask me which readers I still see with my novel in their hands, I could probably answer only one thing: “I see myself.” My younger self, a child of a beautiful era of deceit and intrigue at the courtyard of a typical high-rise building, and my later self, who had already acquired children and gray, calloused thoughts. This is such self-centered work. Nevertheless, I hope that this book will be useful to someone else. That uncles and aunties will sympathize at least a little with the naive search of the main character, and children will forgive the author for the last few, boring and not entirely understandable chapters.