Nicholas Yavorsky is an eminence grise, a rogue and a swindler. He graduated from the Sorbonne and knows many influential people, in particular, “Pavel Gurov from St. Petersburg.” He is a hero of “not our time”, a continuer of the tradition of “superfluous people”. Katya Kovalevich is a Moscow student. What could they have in common? And can it even be? They will only learn about this when they meet in the mysterious and magnificent Prague.