"Baron Lamberto, driakhlyi starik, vladeiuschii nesmetnymi bogatstvami, uznaet ot stranstvuiuschego mudretsa tainu bessmertiia faraonov: "Chelovek, imia kotorogo neprestanno na ustakh, prodolzhaet zhit". Prakticheskii um barona traktuet etu frazu bukval"no, i vskore na ostrov San-Dzhulio pribyvaiut shestero neizvestnykh, zadacha kotorykh - prodlevat" zhizn" barona do beskonechnosti. No tut v delo vmeshivaiutsia tret"i, chetvertye, sto sorok deviatye i dvukhtysiachnye litsa, i v rezul"tate baron Lamberto vlipaet v takuiu istoriiu, kotoruiu esche dolgo budut obsuzhdat" vo vsekh barakh sosednego goroda Orta.. .. "