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At the funeral banquet, after the death of his beloved mother, Misha decides to run away from his relatives. Wandering around the city, he meets a sex worker who may be able to make up for his loss.
In the last years of the USSR, a graduate of a technical university and a researcher at the Research Institute of Chemical Physics, Leonid Katsis, began to actively engage in literary criticism, following only his own ideas about what to consider as an established fact. The appearance of such an uncompromising figure frightens, irritates some professional philologists, and those literary critics who, like Leonid Fridovich himself, came to the profession from technical fields.