Three names: Billy (grew in нищей and drinking family thinks that must behave in accordance with expectations of surrounding), Jan (unhappy itself does not count, but at times he wants to be sunk in Сене), Matilda (it is said that happy, but comes running to the alcohol every time, about it to remember). Three men, that must or to reconcile oneself to with the eternal vegetating - not worse, than at many, - or resolutely to change the life.Three gambles, success that not assured. But really not from making numb guarantees and breathing a boredom calmness do the heroes of histories entering this book want to run? And any trifle, any meeting, can a push serve to escape, any on the face of it nothing not meaning word.