I want to tell you, my readers, a fairy tale where a simple Russian man from the village of Prozrazheno sets out on a difficult and dangerous journey to save his bride Elena Perechnaya from the hands of the Chewing Monster. Oh, and many fun adventures await him. On the way to the fair, he meets Pipetkin, a professor of human sciences, and his companion Shura Borisovna, who flew into a fairy tale on an unusual aircraft. Together with the merry old woman, the hero carries the reader through the wah hut into another, otherworldly world, moving without any technical devices, with the power of a reflected gaze. Together with him we meet fairy-tale characters who help him with wise advice and righteous deeds. How long or short does the tale tell, the hero reaches the side of the Chewing Monster and enters into an unequal intellectual and physical battle with him...