The story is about how an elderly Muscovite Lida and a young migrant worker Abu really fell in love with each other, but the society around them did not accept this love.
The new theatrical fantasy is inspired by the last, eleventh, book of poems by Kuzmin (her only lifetime edition is dated 1929). Work on the stage embodiment of this text for Nastavshev is akin to composing symphonic music, and he himself is the composer of the play.
