Not only the construction pit, but also the second major work of Andrej Platonow, the novel Tschewengur, was not allowed to be published in the Soviet Union. He attempted nothing less than to depict the beginning of the communist society, the author writes to the powerful Maxim Gorky. The response was that the book was unacceptable because the heroes were perceived not as revolutionaries but as comical oddballs and half-crazed individuals. Don Quixote and Sancho Panza roam the steppes of southern Russia: Sasha Dvanov has participated as a stoker in the battles of the Red Army against the Whites. Kopjonkin rides on the steed "Proletarian Power," searching for the grave of Rosa Luxemburg, in whose name he wishes to perform heroic deeds. Is what they encounter along the way meant to be the realization of the socialist idea? Only after parting ways with Kopjonkin does Sasha find the right path.