And it is said: «Word is given to us to suffer». But a word can also oust a character, i.e. the bearer of this very word. The word causes the destruction of the personality of the main character in «Delusions» — Sharkovsky. This word destroyed Jerusalem in the play «Delusions» — the word and not the troops of Titus. This very word creates the theatrical time in the play. And thanks to this very word delusions turn into the only possibility for a man to get into contact with the outer world.

«First was the Word»… Everything after that belonged more or less to the «concluding remarks». In the play «Concluding Remarks» time apparently has gone crazy as if it got off the chain. Beginnings and ends, reasons and consequences got mixed up. May be the traditional mythology has also acquired a slightly different sinister image.

Life brings together the main characters of this play — a man and a woman, a prisoner and a warden — in a prison cell. They turn the cell into home for their love and love into prison for their souls.

Time of profound «democracy». Two elderly people meet at the corner of Vladimirskaya Square and Dostoevsky street — a favorite place for homeless, beggars and small street-traders. He is begging and she is selling something.

And here the story starts for the two — the story as old as the world itself and eternally new. The story of touching and tender love and, alas, of almost inevitable parting.