The conditional edge is located on the edge of disaster. Pressed, squeezed by strong neighbors, the edge slides and settles. The best people of the region - crazy scientists of the huge computer brain “Big Friend”, inconspicuous but cunning mechanics and meticulous employees of the Local History Museum rush about in search of a way out of the pit of the coming future, improvement of consciousness and a way out of the dead end of the life of the region. The plague passengers of the “Philosophical Locomotive”, enthusiastic creatures from the School for Girls and the main character - a stubborn but lazy contemplator, an employee of the “Word Pressing Workshop for the Fund of Future Generations” - solve for themselves a difficult task - to work and give all their strength to continue life, around the corner edge on the path of progress and knowledge.