Plot Summary:Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquantance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on himself. Before the contract is executed, he develops a relationship with a prostitute, and then changes his mind. In order to survive he takes the obvious course of action, which turns out to have possibly been unnecessary, and then he must deal with the guilt.
Рассказ о попытке современного интеллигента вписаться в новую, не очень понятную и приятную жизнь. В результате целой цепи событий, первотолчком которой был необдуманный поступок героя, у него на руках остается мальчик-сирота.