Alexander Mikhalych is the editor-in-chief of a literary magazine. He devoted 40 years of his life to it and built, as it seemed to him, an ideal system of work. But at one terrible moment the system malfunctions and poems about a gentleman cat end up in the room. What is this? Sabotage? The machinations of competitors? A drunken layout designer's mistake? This is what Alexander Mikhalych has to figure out. A short story about the everyday life of a literary magazine and what surprises fate sometimes brings to us.