The volume includes a selection of Sostschenko's satirical texts from the 1920s up to the outbreak of war. The socialist everyday life, with its demands and absurdities, provided the author with ample material. Whether it's a hospital stay that turns into a nightmare, the difficult search for an apartment, shortages of goods, romantic entanglements, or small scams – nothing human is foreign to Sostschenko. The reader often doesn't know whether to cry or laugh. Best to do both at the same time!.