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.