[1][2][3] The hero of the story is Andrei, a passenger on the nonstop express train, tormented by the question of the meaning of traffic.

The impetus to the awakening of his consciousness is a meeting with a man named Khan, who showed him the secret inscriptions in the secluded areas of the train.

But one day Andrei and Han see a "strange man with a straw hat over his shoulders," pushing off the roof, jumping over the bridge railing while the train is moving, landing in the river and floating to the shore.

The path is indicated, there is a way out of the ordinary space, and the main character Andrei commits an act: he leaves the carriage, chooses the freedom of the world, unfamiliar, disturbing, and the glittering yellow windows of the train flies past to the destroyed bridge.

[4][5][6] The train moves almost forever, people on it are born and die, doing business and going bankrupt, falling in love and starting families.