When a long-awaited miracle does happen, it is worth thinking about whether it is a miracle at all and how you will pay for it. Such a discovery awaits the aspiring writer Pyotr Saprykin, the author of a single novel with a tangled fate. Tormented by doubts and the pangs of creativity, he destroys his manuscript. And then he unexpectedly finds it again, so that, unable to cope with the temptation, he rewrites it for publication. The main character will have to figure out what forces are behind the publisher demanding changes to the novel.