About the book: year / The heroine of the book, Viera, a disgraced journalist, goes at the invitation of her old friend to an unfamiliar city to work together in a new show. The show is a theatrical and circus performance in which artists of different nationalities participate. Viera describes their characters, habits, features of their work, in which there is so much risk and so little familiar life. Stories from the lives of the show's artists, their relationships with each other, with the producer Lego, with the audience - . Gradually, the Show becomes a necessity for Viera; watching, seeing, worrying about the artists, admiring them - it becomes her everyday life. The show is also unusual because it captivates with its atmosphere, it is a different performance every time, since the relationships of the characters in the play change - they reflect the relationships of the actors playing these roles. Viera begins an unusual romance with one of the artists - Keane, the best of them. The show becomes a meeting place for Viera and Keane, who sends her a message that only she can understand at every performance. The artists and producer Lego quickly felt this connection and began to perform their play - already in life. The magic of Shaw is interrupted by an unexpected phenomenon from Viera’s past: the editor of the same disgraced publication where she worked as a journalist arrives. Victor tells her when they meet that he is going to a small town because he is not allowed to live or work, hinting at political persecution. The next day, Viera learns that Victor has died - he was on the plane that crashed on her hometown. On the same day, Keen performed an amazing and very dangerous trick - he did a “drop,” a free fall from under the dome upside down, when the artist makes a U-turn and falls on his back only a few centimeters from the mat. Keane put on a black blindfold and did it without the director’s knowledge... Soon Viera receives a letter containing a disk with materials about the plane crash. Here the author uses real eyewitness accounts. They terrify Viera. Having understood the essence of the impasse in which she found herself in her attachment to Shaw and his characters, the girl decides to leave. The troupe greets her departure with contemptuous disapproval. And Viera goes to his hometown to investigate the story of the crashed plane and the death of a friend..