Pidmohylny created the modern novel, which is focused on urban problems and touches upon philosophical questions of being.

He is an energetic rural young man who arrives in Kyiv to get into the economic university and hopes to come back with new knowledge to the village.

At the end of the novel, he feels himself the owner of the city: "It lies humbly beneath wavy rocks, marked by points of fire, and stretches him from the darkness of the hills sharp stone fingers."

In short, it is Impressionism: from fragments of things, people and sounds author makes a portrait of the city.

At the beginning, secretary of the bureau advises Radchenko to change clothes: "All the Ukrainian woes are because of dressing badly."

Before the store with fashionable and expensive clothes Stepan still believes that it should only change his appearance and he can create something extraordinary.