In his delusions, he is rescued from the Sava waves by an old man who soon introduces himself as Abaddon, "an evil spirit of lies and deception, hypocrisy and injustice - the leading genius of the [...] age!"

He renounces four hours of sleep a day, is forbidden any contact with water, gets an invisible ring around his neck, and in return Abaddon serves him with all the supernatural powers at his disposal.

With the conclusion of the contract, Samorad begins an instructive journey through space and time, in which he learns how each use of Abadon's help hurts someone, what the future of Europe and the Slovenian nation will look like and what interpersonal relationships are.

In helplessness, Samorad leaves Dolenjska on a plane with Abadon and travels around Europe, where he meets stingy capitalists in Paris.

A person who is Samorad's conscience enters the inn "Pri postenem Kranjcu", where he takes refuge, and persuades him to leave Abaddon.

He is told that he had incomprehensible delusions, which were written down, and at the same time the bookworm Nemcigren was asked to remove from the Samorad library all inappropriate books, "all the many degenerates of the boiling brain and the unpleasant greed of our nervous age."

Every birth of a child is predetermined, only the most deserving people are chosen as parents, who have the right to live in a partnership until one day the authorities kill them.