Dimka Kozyrev is twenty-seven. Dimka is kind and honest. He has a girlfriend and a good job. Only there is no car... A crisis is coming. The girl leaves and is fired from her job. The last chance is to win a literary competition. Don’t wait for the jury’s decision with folded arms! Engage in hand-to-hand combat, set up your opponents, be merciless! Not a step back! A detective story about how Dimka Kozyrev became a writer. Humor and sobs, blood and tenderness, the shine of power and the poverty of the back streets, as well as the ghost of Arseny Tarkovsky in the new novel by Alexander Snegirev “Vanity.”