A new, first published novel by Vasily Aksenov. The main character of the book, theater director, actor and bard Alexander Korbach, in whom the traits of Andrei Tarkovsky, Vladimir Vysotsky and the author himself can be discerned, was expelled from the Soviet Union in the early eighties and forced to wander around America, where he faces the usual trials for an emigrant - Ignorance of the language, lack of money, job search. The life of an emigrant brings him into contact with many people, lifts him to success and throws him into the abyss of failure, and takes him all over the world. This is a book about Russia and America, about the intertwining of human destinies, about the memory of generations, about the search for oneself, about the origin of man - not from a monkey, but from God. And this is also a book about love.