Alexey Vinokurov's novel unfolds, as it were, simultaneously in various temporal "tensions": on both sides of the line of confrontation between Ukraine and Russia in the Donbass - and in the Universe inhabited by ancient creatures, whose nature is not entirely comprehensible, but with whom, willy-nilly, one has to get along. The funny grows into the scary, behind seemingly ordinary things and events, metaphysical abysses open up.