Synopsis

"Uuuuhhh!!! Look at me, I'm dying. The storm is howling its de profundis in the doorway, and I'm howling with it. It's done, I'm done! A criminal with a dirty cap, the cook from the employee cafeteria at the Central Council of National Economy, poured boiling water over me and burned my left side. What a scoundrel! And he's a proletarian, too!" (Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog, Chapter I) Thus begins Heart of a Dog: a stray dog ​​is dying of cold and hunger in a narrow street in central Moscow. During his agony, the stray (who, like many other street dogs, has his own point of view and can even read) cynically observes and judges the humanity around him: from the cooks at the National Food Council to the street cleaners of the Moscow City Council, from the category 9 typist to the middle-class professional.