For two years now, the agronomist Ivan Ivushkin’s family has moved to the village. His son Philip can hardly imagine any other life without the wonderful house with its large anterooms and stove, without the quiet river of Mera, the meadows, the Blue Forest, and all the village and forest dwellers. But the thing is, the Ivushkins are moving back to the city. Dad, Ivan Filippovich, has written some kind of dissertation. In the city, they give them a three-room apartment, and Dad will work at a research institute.
And it all went like this: Philip decided to run away into the woods with a horse named Lusha. Right or wrong—at that moment it didn’t matter to Ivushkin. Sometime, Ivushkin will understand that making other people worry is not acceptable. He will learn that this is called selfishness. He’ll understand everything and try not to do it again. But later. For now, he has to end up in the land of “Nowhere and Never” and survive many adventures.