A collection of novellas is united by the idea of searching for lost things, thoughts, and beloved people. Fear of loss is familiar to everyone, but when you search, sometimes you find more than you expected. Marinochka hides from the monsters in the jungle of her life: will her beloved save her, or will her mother’s prophecy come true—that each next husband is worse than the previous? Will a nurse hired at a nursing home for therapeutic readings of Russian poetry understand the nature of the mysterious transformations of the patients? Will the witch Nina Ivanovna win Newton’s third law? How do you say goodbye to a dying father in a world that has given up spoken language? Will an exorcist help the surgeon Pshenichnikov, who is possessed by a demon of alcoholism? Three, four, five, I’m going to look for it!