Ivan Usokin is only twenty years old, but it already seems to him that he has failed and squandered every opportunity he has been given: he dropped out of school, lost his inheritance in a single bet on roulette, and now we watch him break up with his lover. Desperate, Usokin approaches a magician and asks him to perform a miracle: to allow him to return to the past without forgetting his mistakes, so that he can correct his dismal situation. What if everything we do, including reading this book at this very moment, repeats itself over and over again like a broken record, like a cyclical cycle from which there is no escape? Life is a honey trap: it seems to be the embodiment of freedom, but in reality we are captive to a pattern – a personality profile that forever replicates the same thing. Ouspensky, a philosopher and esotericist, takes us in his only novella to an uncertain reality; he suggests escaping the cycle to a place where there are no scripts: to the stronghold of human freedom. According to this book, a ritual work that has been passed down from hand to hand for a century, it is our being that charts the path of what will happen, not what is dictated to us. Prepare for an unforgettable reading hour; here is a work that seeks to revolutionize life.