This writer with great creative potential has one, perhaps seemingly minor, feature. He appears to be a healthy person with a moral and healthy sense of humor. Maybe that’s why Viorel Lomov’s heroes are often sad when they discover life not in themselves, but outside themselves. And they are all very kind, without the currently fashionable aggression of mind, body, sex or fantasy. V. Lomov's prose is not only kind but also abundant. And it flows not with words, but, first of all, with thoughts, easily turning into images and back. That’s why there is a feeling that she seems to be rolling along some trajectory known to her towards events that are not so incredible. But this incredible thing is not from the realm of idle intellectual games, but from the realm of something magically good, like a utopia or an old bedtime story. This story is about how an experiment was conducted in a provincial town zoo that was supposed to increase the “intelligence” of chimpanzees. The monkey became smarter and was able to get out of the cage at night, and at the same time released all the animals, incl. predatory. The greatest threat to the residents of the suburb was posed by a lion and a lioness, to organize the capture of which the famous lion hunter, entomologist Harry Pook, came to the city from abroad. This is where the incredible story begins...