For the heroes of the book “The End of Monplaisir,” all the best is in the past. Reality hits without warning, and each of them adapts in their own way. The artist Ilya Kaporeikin goes abroad, and upon returning home he discovers that he is registered in a non-existent house and feels like “the only real one, the owner of the former Monplaisir.” Alexey Afanasyevich, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, holder of eight military orders, has been bedridden for many years and does not know that tremendous changes have taken place in the country over the past fifteen years. His relatives carefully show him the news, where Brezhnev is still alive and the construction of communism continues, they read out edited articles from the modern Pravda... However, the former intelligence officer begins to guess that something is wrong here...