About the book: 1967 / Janka arrives in Warsaw and enters the theater, which seems to her like a “Greek temple.” She is sure that she will meet people here who are able to think and talk not “about housekeeping, household chores and the weather,” but “about the progress of mankind, ideals, art, poetry” - people who “embody all the ideas that move the world.” However, gradually, looking closely at the actors, she begins to see some kind of moral monsters - depraved, envious, hysterical, with vulgar feelings, with the absence of any higher life principles and interests.