This book of short stories completes the trilogy of Anatoly Dniester, the events of which unfold in the fictional town of Budych by the author.
"Grey Payne", which is the first book in the trilogy, tells about the life of provincial Bohemians – artists, models and poets. In "ghosts" (the second book in the trilogy), longing for creativity leads the main character to the city of his youth, where everything has changed beyond recognition.
The novels and short stories included in the book "Budych's first cue" continue to tell the stories of Budych, their time space continues from the mid-1980s to the present day. There is a bandit billiard room and its visitors of the late 1980s, provincial journalists and schoolchildren, eccentric intellectuals, retired hermits…
It is with these temporal, ideological clashes that the author marks important moments of the transformation of Ukrainian society, gives us the opportunity to look into a particular era together with it.