“I would willingly pay with my life for the right angle of even warmth...” A mysterious line from Arseny Tarkovsky could become the epigraph of this book. What's the point of paying for a corner if you don't live there? Make sure it exists? What is your place in the hundred thousand puzzle of the earth: your home, business, meaning? To understand whether the choice is mutual? Is the search worth life, or is it called life? The author answers these questions by exploring the metaphysics of the relationship between man and place, reflecting on the psychology of strange feelings and actions, the unconscious and the unknowable. About a black cat in a dark room and a mirror in an empty one.