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This book is the life of one of the most prominent Ukrainian poets of the twentieth century. It is about the son of a nobleman of the Ukrainian noble family, in which from generation to generation there was a struggle between two souls, Ukrainian and Polish, a son of "that Tadey", a pupil of Kyiv Old Town, a bright representative of the neoclassical p'iatirnyi ґron.

Utim to the "purity and simplicity" of neoclassicism, the young mitez'y ishov, having gone through a period of being captivated by the "dark vezhami" symbolism, grykhovnymi spokusy, "poison charming". The art of equivocation was established after the experience of opium visions, drug paradises, and the naturalisation of evil.

Searching for new values in the world abandoned by God, the poet equally values Homer and Baudelaire, antiquity and decadence. A separate storyline of the book is the history of Maxim Rilskyi's relationship with the Radian regime, an analysis of his texts with a subversive bottom, texts-ciphers, which convey to us the tragic collisions of the time of the great terror. He remained faithful to his beloved muse, the religion of beauty and harmony.