Vladislav Vitalievich Govorikin is not a Chekhovian man in a case, but a modern Diogenes, looking for the man within himself, but at the same time unable to spread his wings and break through the shell of a fictitious disease that has painfully slowed down his development. Having a deep attachment to his home and to his communist father, Vladislav cannot get used to moving to a foreign, unfamiliar city and the collapse of the usual structure of society - even if such a collapse occurs to a large extent only in his own imagination...