A novel about the apothecary Leocast, who dabbles in the occult, does not hide it too well, and, after getting into an argument over a girl with the mayor's son, tries to take revenge by any means possible... first, and then just to escape from a cruel society. Love, the search for the meaning of life, poetry - Leocast's life consists of many details, but he still does not know how to make immortality out of them, so it turns out a kind of devil-death-self.