José Saramago is one of the greatest writers of modern Portugal, laureate of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, author of the infamous “Gospel of Jesus.” Raimundo Silva is a proofreader. Preparing for publication a book on the history of the siege of Moorish Lisbon during the Reconquista of the 12th century, he, without understanding why, inserts an extra particle “not” into the key episode - and it turns out that the Portuguese capital was recaptured from the Moors without the help of the crusaders. And now history - world and personal - flows in a different direction, and Senora Maria Sara, assigned to supervise the proofreaders in order to avoid such annoying and inexplicable mistakes in the future, makes Raimundo the most unexpected proposal... For the first time in Russian.