Music and silence. Creation and impotence. Contemplation and strolling. He considers himself a genius, but publishing houses refuse to print his works. He loves women, but they do not always understand him. Recurring lack of money, and ignorance of reality. An elegant dandy, Daniil Yuvatchev renames himself, not without less effect, "Harms". He is a regular at incessant literary gatherings and he likes to show off. He lives in society, but is totally detached from it. Harms challenges time, boldly throws himself into an abyss of reality, diluted and completely virtual, including the same dose of contradictions with which his own nature was realized. In the atmosphere of his dilapidated apartment and the editorial office of the children's newspapers "Chizh" and "Yozh", the streets, embankments and roofs of Leningrad, a surprising struggle of a man with himself, his shortcomings, his passions, with the whole world, in which he lives as if locked in a cage, unfolds. Will he be able to escape from the pressure of society, from love collisions, from the impossibility of creating?
