Before us is a philosophical walk by Alexei Makushinsky through the places where the main “characters” of the book lived - Nikolai Berdyaev and the French theologian Jacques Maritain. While walking, the author falls into the past, remembers and quotes poets, philosophers and artists (among them: Lev Shestov and his students, Rodin and Rilke, Charles Péguy, Marina Tsvetaeva, Albert Camus), every now and then diving back into modernity and with the talent of a true novelist noticing everything around - from the red pants of a fellow traveler to candy wrappers on the floor of a cafe. Reading such prose is work, rewarded by a feeling of the amazing completeness of the world, which, as in Homeric times, can still be conveyed through words.