This collection incorporates 16 short stories. The book conveys the author’s knowledge of modern cities, containing a subtle sense of humour and depicting larger than life characters. The author turns life into a new narrative reality, into a writer’s new philosophy. His stories relate to the mysteries of life in the urban space. But the big city in the book is not one we would know so well. It resembles a city in a fairy tale – filled with secrets and drama. It is a big city that offers very colourful theatrical decors, against the background of which deep and strange human drama develops.

All stories are set in recognizable spaces of urban Bulgaria of today, but described and used from a very unique and distinctive perspective.

These stories represent a realistic duel between life and death, youth and time, father and daughter in a world where madness is omnipresent but cannot be precisely located. Analyzing man's fears Terziyski creates a stream of consciousness out of bits and peaces of everyday life.

The short stories of Kalin Terziyski are an attempt at establishing a new tradition in Bulgarian prose: a tradition of humanistic and poetical urbanism.