The main character, a modest engineer Vitlav Erikson, wakes up one morning not in his bed, not in his house, and in general, it seems, not in his life. The strange inhabitants of the gloomy house unanimously repeat that he is not an engineer at all, and not even Vitlav Erikson at all, but music teacher Jakob Skule. In an atmosphere of gloomy absurdity with a hint of the surreal, the unfortunate man tries to maintain his identity and not go crazy. Will he succeed?..