The novel is an ironic and lyrical, and sometimes absolutely serious attempt to refute the opinion that spiritual aspirations and the search for one’s own one and only life, a passionate desire to become an actor, and not a puppet doll, is not a woman’s business at all.

The world of the novel is a world of people like the heroine, people who found the standard scenario of external existence uninteresting, and they are driven by an adventurous intention - to turn their life into their main work.

Episodes of the spiritual The heroine's searches are scattered in time and space and even in different levels of reality, but all together they form an integral story of her apprenticeship. Apprenticeship is to be, not to appear.