Sparkling humor, social acuity, political malice and sophisticated eroticism are the hallmarks of Yuri Polyakov's prose. And at the same time, many men consider him almost a traitor, and many women consider him a professional guide through the nooks and crannies of the male soul. “The End of the Film, or The Plaster Trumpeter” is the completion of a satirical epic that has no analogues in modern Russian literature. The plot, dashingly twisted in the first part of “The Plaster Trumpeter, or the End of the Film” and dizzyingly continued in the second part “The Plaster Trumpeter: Take Two,” comes to a conclusion that is completely unexpected for the reader and the author himself.