After a serious injury, the hero loses his memory, but gains the gift of suggestion. On his walks around Moscow he is accompanied by the demon-tempter Brockhaus...
"Ygrek", aka Kostya
John Vasilyevich Brockhaus, former theater actor
nurse Galya
Professor, head physician of a mental hospital
old doctor
KGB chief
Chirik, a squeaky alcoholic
orderly
Nurse Barbara
Zabelin, a man with "voices in his head"
"Miklukho-Maclay", schizophrenic
saleswoman in a grocery store
Gennady Stepanovich, director of a grocery store
plainclothes policeman
Ygrek's former colleague
a general attacked by a hypnotized policeman
Tamara, the brunette in the restaurant
blonde in a restaurant
military
bald cook, moonlighting as a nurse and a welder
prostitute
fat man in a diner, "racketeer"