ABSTRACT The hero of the play gained European fame at the age of 9. But all the genius child dreamed of was to look into his own future. What awaits him – a brief flash of the spark of God or the eternal flame of a superstar? He manages to penetrate into this very future with the help of two other characters who are close to him in spirit and fate. He will have to learn and experience for himself that great art is able to reconcile irreconcilable enemies, build saving bridges between despotism and an ideal world, disarm tyrants and arm their victims, and even turn gangsters into virtuous volunteers. He was destined to change nine countries of residence and five nationalities in full accordance with the old tailor's reasoning about the Tower of Babel. In his early youth, a tailor wooed the daughter of a rabbi, who arranged an exam for applicants for the girl's hand. He asked, "What is the most valuable thing in the Torah for you?" — I replied: "the destruction of the Tower of Babel." "And what's wrong with her?" the rabbi wondered. And I said what I thought.: "It was the idea of the world government, which was later attributed to us. With a worldwide government, the persecuted have nowhere to run. If King Nimrod had succeeded, Abraham would not have been able to escape." Every step in the hero's life is unpredictable, and the sequence of events is an intoxicating cocktail of shocking paradoxes, subtle irony, and healing wisdom. Even when you live through this play to the end, you will want to keep it not on a bookshelf, but under your pillow. The author is a philologist, journalist, writer, translator. Leonid Makhlis's first book, The Six Careers of Mikhail Alexandrovich. The Life of a Tenor" (Moscow, 2014) was awarded the First ASKA Prize and recognized as the "Best Book of the Year".