The works presented in the collection, despite their apparent diversity, are united by one thing: all the heroes are in voluntary or forced isolation from society. But they are separated not only from the world, but also divided in their souls - the old alcoholic Mikhalych, and the inhabitant of the district city cemetery, the loser vampire Semyon Petrovich, and the necrophiliac romantic, and the naive philosopher-hare driven into a hole by merciless hunting raids... They live in worlds that are stricken with loneliness, like a disease. Someone is trying to find a cure for this disease. Someone simply lives without noticing it, and someone even finds pleasure in it...