The protagonist, shed number XII, undergoes an inner evolution leading to spiritual freedom and partially obtains answers to questions about the meaning of life.

[4] Sometimes, on a hot summer day, when everything around him hushed up, the shed would secretly identify itself with a folding Kama or Sputnik (brands of bicycles popular in the USSR) and experience happiness.

In this state he could find himself fifty kilometers away from his present location and ride, for example, across a deserted bridge over a canal in concrete banks or along the lilac shoulder of a heated highway, turning into tunnels formed by bushes sprouting around a narrow dirt path, so that, after riding over them, he could take another road leading to the forest, through the forest, and then resting on the orange stripes above the horizon.

[4] Spiritual perfection, natural giftedness, subtle inner organization of the main character in the perception and understanding of the world around him lead him to the realization of the long-awaited dream.

Thus death in the story is understood as a peculiar step in achieving spiritual freedom, the beginning of true and real life.