The heroes of short stories live everywhere, lead an ordinary lifestyle, and reproduce in captivity. For them, the alarm clock rings invitingly every morning. They, pushing aside competitors, climb up the same ladder, crave bonuses and at once spend everything on sales invented for them. In the evening they get stuck in traffic jams, at home they chew cutlets, and sometimes they rush off on a business trip, not suspecting that it is not always possible to return from it.