Roma is Russian-Armenian. He is studying to be a lawyer but does not want to be a lawyer, he tells his parents that he goes to college, but he works in a pizzeria, he tells a friend that he likes Natasha, but this is not true. Once he meets Lesha, and everything in life takes on meaning: study, friendship, relationships with relatives and friends. Everything in life becomes important with love.
Haystacks in the field behind the house, ice stream over already quite rotten bridge, river dam - The author returns to Shuvoe following his child's memory. The dramatic Change of the village's image may not leave him indifferent. Bygone traditions, the faces of the beloved ones, that are about to vanish.
“Then a solemn white manor was opened on a high place, depopulated to a homeless appearance ... Like graves on the churchyard, the remains of services and small houses lay in the thickets of grasses and bushes. The columns guarded the empty, buried world. Ornamental noble trees kept their slender bodies above this death "- Andrey Platonov, the story" Chevengur ".
