The hero of Alexander Kabakov’s new novel “The Old Man and the Angel,” Professor Kuznetsov, in his eighties, realizes that his life has been wasted: he married without love, changed women without passion and was left alone. A heart attack... but that’s where it all begins. A strange colonel of some strange FSB, Mikhailov, appears, we are talking about the soul and the Devil, about happiness and power... And the professor would not have escaped the clawed paws if not for an angel named Tanya. It turns out that life can still be changed!