Roman is a born proofreader from a family of proofreaders, a real intellectual from St. Petersburg who comes to Narva-Jõesuu, a small Estonian spa town, to find inspiration, tranquility, and silence. He does proofreading of the encyclopedia of the Baltic Sea Fishes, compiled in the same location by Professor Polyanski, winner of the Nobel Prize. This work is very important for Roman. He would have accomplished his task, but once he swam too far in the sea. It was then that Helena came into his life, to change his ideas about the world forever.
A female hunter shot a man who was just flying in the jamb with other men. She gave him shelter and bore him an egg. But he never stopped dreaming of the sky, and when spring came, he finally managed to take off. The woman ran out with a gun, shot, but another man fell down. Hunter took him home and the man had nothing else left but remembering what was irrevocably lost.
