"Goodbye Berlin", first published in 1939, is perhaps the most famous work of Christopher Isherwood, whose wide popularity was largely due to the film "Cabaret", based on it by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli. This work is usually called a novel, but the book can just as well be considered a conceptual collection of short stories. Stories united by a common hero, time and place. So, the hero is a poor young English writer. Time is a strange, unsteady, twilight era of the very beginning of the 1930s, shortly before the National Socialists came to power. And finally, the place is Berlin, the most bohemian of the metropolises of pre-war Europe. Decadent, nervous Berlin of the "jazz era". A city in which the destinies of bohemian girls of very lax morals, going crazy from the permissiveness of the rich, wealthy Jewish intellectuals and many, many other passengers of the dissolute Noah’s Ark of Freedom are intertwined in some unthinkable tangle - an ark that will very soon turn into the Titanic...