Posle smerti ottsa Mishel, utrativshiy vkus k zhizni gossluzhaschiy na poroge sorokaletiya, otpravlyaetsya v Tailand, chtoby pobalovat sebya ekzoticheskimi udovolstviyami. Tam on znakomitsya s Valeri, sotrudnitsey krupnoy turisticheskoy kompanii, i delitsya s ney svoey teoriey ob istinnyh motivah evropeytsev, ischuschih ostryh oschuscheniy. Okazavshis vtyanutym v borbu za pribyl lyuboy tsenoy, Mishel tsinichno rassmatrivaet zapadnoe obschestvo, kotoroe s nevidannym dosele uspehom prevraschaet chelovecheskoe telo v tovar. Vozmozhno, on udivitsya, kogda obnaruzhit, chto lyudi po-prezhnemu sposobny na chuvstva. . .
