Pervaya chast" knigi, pogruzhaet chitatelya v mir uznikov razuma – lyudey s inym mirooshchushcheniem, s drugimi ponyatiyami i s drugoy logikoy. Smogut li oni, proydya po labirintam soznaniya, osvobodit"sya ot uz, skovyvayushchikh ikh razum, ili zateryayutsya tam navsegda - nekaya real"nost" v perepletenii s avtorskoy fantaziey… Vtoraya chast" posvyashchena povestvovaniyam o zhizni nashikh sovremennikov – ego sozdaniyu v nemaloy stepeni sposobstvovali glubokie poznaniya avtora v chelovecheskoy psikhologii.