Ilya was lured into going on the trip by his friend Magda. He himself had a good time on the beach. But take Magda out and put on a one-day cruise from Cyprus to Israel... So Ilya found himself in Jerusalem - a city where world religions and fifty other different beliefs meet, where with the advent of the new millennium there is some strange, impatient expectation in the air... Something incomprehensible suddenly happened to an ordinary Moscow slob. It seems to him that he is lost in time and space, in a strange, impossible world. His real world is somewhere nearby, you just have to stretch out your hand to it. But for some reason, Ilya is attracted to strange people who take him further and further away from a comfortable reality. The gaze of a mysterious stranger plunges into confusion and for some reason the words of a wandering philosopher turn out to be understandable and important...