Merry and honest, compassionate and witty history is long in one impossible week happening in life of Хэнка Деверо. With reluctance and against own nature William Henry Деверо is Junior, preferring, that he was called without ceremony Хэнк, manages the English department in the decayed college somewhere in the ferruginous belt of Pennsylvania. Хэнк in grain observer and anarchist, but a department headily разваливается even without his efforts. In the flow of week of Хэнку coming to get through mass of tests and even catastrophes. A becoming furious colleague will smash nose to him, a graduate student will make an effort tempt him, on local TV he will be accused of executing of goose, a native father will arrive with a desire to make it up forever, and some functions of organism will declare a strike suddenly. Sad and funny novel about academic unlucky persons, about свободу-несвободу and simply about good people.