The caddisfly is a bloodworm larva that lives only in clean water, and the bite on it is remarkable. But its habitat has been so polluted that it is now easier to find the Madagascar cockroach than it is. So a person, suddenly coming to his senses, discovers that his cultural layer is being split. During the decay stage, more and more anomalies appear. Perhaps, in the phantasmagoria of metamorphoses accompanying this process, man found himself on the verge of an endangered species? “...People, like rats, feel something and... change. Are they preparing for something or is it just easier for them to live?” Durnenkov’s weirdo heroes are apparently trying to either retain the old image or create a new image of homo sapiens, mysteriously slipping away somewhere. The realities of the past, present and even the otherworldly are intricately intertwined, although they seem unconnected in the disparate scenes of the plays, unexpectedly sharp turns of the plot and intricate endings. And in everything there is a tempting understatement and the authors’ unchanging, latently flickering lyricism.