One day, Boris Pavlovich Belkin, a 42-year-old philosophy department lecturer, returns to Saint Petersburg from another exhausting trip abroad. And right after landing, he receives a strange phone call. Not only does the call plunge Belkin into someone else’s past, it also temporarily turns him into a detective from whom the solution of the mystery forever slips away.
A delicate, philosophical, and metaphorical prose about time, memory, love—and how all of this intertwines in a complicated way, leaving no traces except the diary entries that no one can read.