Pered Vami neobychnyy variant plutovskogo romana, geroem kotorogo vystupaet rossiyskiy poluintellektual vremen mileniuma. V techenie dnya on legko migriruet mezh, kazalos' by, vzaimoisklyuchayushchimi sostoyaniyami: nauchnoy sosredotochennosti, ironichnogo trepa, sportivnogo sostyazaniya, alkogol'nykh vozliyaniy, eroticheskikh kontaktov, filosofskikh disputov i razmyshleniy, "veshchikh" snov i serdtseshchipatel'nykh vospominaniy. Drugoy by rasteryalsya v takom kolovrashchenii, no dlya gospodina N. etot stil' zhizni yavlyaetsya edinstvenno priemlemym.