The protagonist, the hereditary doctor Tolik, is expelled from work for a fight with patients. The hero considers this event a good sign to start a new life. Finally, his dream will be to become a "free" poet, and if he is lucky - even famous, because he writes poems, and indeed, not bad. It is very nice that at this moment there will be an old friend Slavik who knows everything: what is the meaning of life, how to make money, how to become happy. He draws the hero into a series of absurd situations in which Tolik loses almost everything he has. Probably the most dramatic situations with the family and adventures with Slavic will be the impetus for writing really good poems, which will then be included in the collection.