In a seaside town there is a completely unique pharmacy called Placebo. Here you can not just buy pills or potions, but get a prescription and be cured of an ailment with the help of... tango, extreme sports, writing poetry, theater, learning Chinese, or even playing the stock market! The pharmacist takes a young boy as his apprentice, raised by a single mother with quirks. It would seem that it would be difficult to imagine a better fate for the boy: the Pharmacist has diplomas from Oxford and Cambridge, the Wolf and Leiden Prizes. But a magical game begins in which the hero has to meet a woman with a dog's head, roll the dice of fate and meet the company of real drugstore gentlemen! This phantasmagoric novel, written by a famous Israeli performance artist, is similar to the textbook famous “Alice in Wonderland” and “ Charlie from the Chocolate Factory! The book contains obscene language.