This is a wise, fascinating and surprisingly bright novel - the story of two good people living in our fantastic reality. Residents of one city were seized by the excitement of easy money, as a result of which rats monstrously multiplied there, and the city found itself on the brink of chaos and biological disaster. But the world, as always, is saved by spiritual purity, spiritual content, love and self-sacrifice, despite the fact that in our time these matters have become the lot of rare eccentrics.