“This world is at least familiar. But what remains? Live until life becomes unbearable. And then what? And then? And then?" You walk with the dog, stand in line, wake up in the middle of the night - and suddenly you realize that you can go completely crazy, lose your mind, cross the line, turn a corner and from there you won’t be able to find your way back. The first novel by Robert S. Jones (1954–2001) is about consciousness and reality, about a man who teeters on the brink of madness, exhausted by the fear of life and with difficulty, almost against his will, returns to the supposedly normal world where he is still doomed . This is a book about pain, horror and humanity. For the first time in Russian.