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The novel Without Soil and the short stories Revenge, The Tamed Haidamaka, and Oh, Revukha Has Left... are united by a common theme. These are stories about the coexistence of contradictory identities in one person and the need to pretend to be someone you don't feel like."

The events of the novel Without a Soil unfold at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s, when the spokespersons of the new world ideology proclaim a complete break with any tradition: to start history from scratch, to raise a person unencumbered by any heritage. In an authoritarian state, the leader must become the only object of worship.

Kharkiv-based cultural critic Rostyslav Mykhailovych comes to his hometown Dnipro to decide the fate of his teacher's building, the Varangian Church.