From the publisher This bright and unexpected book is not a book at all, but a theatrical performance. Tragicomedy. The characters are doctors, midwives, nurses and... patients. The scene is a maternity hospital and a maternity hospital. Within these walls, reality comfortably coexists with eccentric farce, and the funny often brings tears. Here, the twenty-first century with its nanotechnologies does not yet guarantee the absence of Bulgakov’s “Egyptian darkness” and the ambulance driver may unexpectedly turn out to be more literate than the anesthesiologist... What should an adult man do if he has phimosis, and how is this related to impressionist painting? Where do we go during clinical death, and what is IVF? About the funny and sad. About doctors and patients. About men and women. About complete hopelessness and eternity. Thanks to this book, you will take a new look at familiar things: doctors and patients, illness and recovery, the problem of fathers and children, life and death...