An old shaman asks the spirits to let him go. He has spent his entire life serving people who demanded that their wishes be fulfilled - sometimes stupid, insignificant and causing harm to others.

No one ever asked him about the gods, about the meaning of life, about why people suffer. The shaman is disappointed in people - in their greed, malice, philistinism and baseness. He is tired. But everything has to be paid for - both by those hungry for fame, money, power and other people's husbands, and by the shaman, who is forced to be a guide between people and spirits. And the price for leaving service is death.