Vor, shpion i ubiyca

Mir lezhit vo zle, ponimaet geroy Yuriya Buydy, s yunosti obozhayuschiy Kafku i vsled za nim mechtayuschiy stat' pisatelem: vorovat' u real'nosti obrazy, shpionit' za maleyshimi dvizheniyami dushi i ubivat' mgnoveniya, chtoby zapechatlet' ih naveki! Odnako v nischete poslevoennyh let pisatelyam suzhdena sovsem drugaya sud'ba: rabota na zavode, sluchaynye svyazi s zhenschinami, zhizn', blizkaya k zhivotnoy... No odnazhdy on nauchitsya v sobstvennom grehe cherpat' sily. Kazhetsya, chto, vzrosleya i priblizhayas' k ispolneniyu svoey mechty, geroy Buydy iz mertvoy vody okunaetsya v zhivuyu, chtoby v buduschem zakalit'sya ot vseh napastey!