Teenager Methuselah - about their lives and the lives of people. The characters of his story: his father, all his life struggling against counter-revolution, brothers and counterfeiters, and look after their operator, lost in the branches of a mighty tree in the yard, his sister - the embodiment of different "kinds" of women's nature, summer residents of the town, angel-Methuselah , and goat Kuzdra. This heterogeneous and incompatibles coexists in a maze of old wooden houses. All live and breathe as he wishes, in accordance with its nature - in anticipation of some unearthly ray, which finally shed some sense on this abundance of life. Ray in the end is sliding in the final of the skies, clouds and rivers - a sunbeam from the false coin donated by Methuselah on the day of his angel ...