On the pages of the book, at first, the interweaving of documentary and fiction, reality and fantasy, risk and everyday life, philosophy and the grotesque seems incompatible. The book opens with the artistic and documentary story “The Fugitive Rachikhin.” Vladimir Rachikhin, assistant to the famous director Bondarchuk, fled from filming in Mexico and applied for political asylum to the American authorities... The book included sections “Dreams of Odnopozov” and “Mysteries of Doctor Gore” - a collection of disparate plot compositions, but united in the highest, philosophical the idea of beautifully written short stories. Odnopozov, an eccentric prose writer, draws the stories of his heroes from a parallel world, located... behind the railings of the balcony of the writer's house. The duality of the universe, the non-subordination of the ideal world to the material world, and vice versa - is the leitmotif of the entire cycle. Here, the frames of the film where a strange man was captured, who left the author an equally strange manuscript, turn out to be empty, as if this person existed in a different dimension than his manuscript (the story “Hong Kong”). And an old Breguet, bought by the hero in an antique shop - it shows the same number every day (the story “Breget”). The hero begins to understand that he is experiencing the same day again and again, only now the events undergo a threatening drift incomprehensible to the hero, as if a warning is being sent from THERE... But the most surprising thing, perhaps, is this: the parallel lines of all the destinies that permeate the narrative, in spite of everything , - intersect. And they converge precisely in you, the reader. In you, who turned the last page. In your world. Where the past, present and future continue to shuffle whimsically and where blood dictates its rights to your destiny.