Whimsical in appearance, but logically built from within, the plot of this narrative is formed by: episodes of the fight against counter-revolution in the 20s and the flooding of villages and villages under the Rybinsk Sea in the thirties; and - the 2000s of the thousandth, in which the students of the famous film director, the grandson of the famous Stalinist builder and transformer of nature, a recycler of the bodies of deceased prisoners and a laureate writer act; the grandson, unlike his grandfather, became a “wizard,” as his students call him, who created his own world, far from the cruelty of Russian history; It is precisely him, who has fallen into poverty and helplessness in his old age, that his former students, mostly failed film directors, are trying to help. Well, the story ends in the distant future, in which descendants peer with bewilderment at events infinitely distant from them on the territory of a no longer existing country