An old writer with rich life and professional experience, in whose life there was everything except murder, set out to kill a person in order to experience the unknown so far and put an end to the creative crisis that had been going on for several years. He acquires a pistol and wanders the outskirts of the night streets in search of a suitable victim. After a long search, he meets a thief who has just been released from prison. The old man takes the thief to a night restaurant, treats him, but when they find themselves at night in the middle of a dark deserted wasteland, the situation changes three times, the weapon ends up in the hands of the intended victim...