Evgeny Germanovich lived with his wife for thirty years and three years, not always, as in a fairy tale, but in love and, as he assumed, in harmony. But the wife unexpectedly decides to divorce and leaves with her new partner for another country, in which she has long dreamed of living. Trying to regain his footing, Evgeniy Germanovich begins to learn to play the piano - and along with music, a music teacher, a conservatory student, a young ballerina, as well as a neighbor who has designs on him, and a couple of cats in love appear in his life. The idea of the book: you have to continue to live, even if it seems that there is no point in it.