Conversation about literature, music, painting, theater with famous interlocutors. The characters of the book are Veniamin Kaverin, Venedikt Erofeev, Yuri Levitansky, Sergei Averintsev, Arseny and Andrei Tarkovsky, Lydia Chukovskaya, Tamara Ivanova, Yuri Nagibin, Boris Khazanov, Vladimir Dudintsev, Lidia Grigorieva, Yuri Karabchievsky, Semyon Lipkin, Tonino Guerra, Vera Kalman, David Tukhmanov, Konstantin Raikin, Alexander Yesenin-Volpin, Alexander Volkov, Vladimir Vitkovsky and many others... The book uses the works of LG photojournalists Vladimir Bogdanov, Alexander Karzanov and other authors, on the cover and titles - drawings by the artist Vladimir Vitkovsky.