The story of the romantic love between a homeless vagabond, almost an alcoholic, and a girl from a so-called decent home is set in 1980s Vilnius, in the harsh Soviet reality. The author spares no drastic descriptions of the lives of the poorest residents of Užupis, but he tells about them warmly, with sympathy. The multinationality of the town is strongly emphasized, with Polish themes intertwined with Russian, Belarusian, Jewish and Lithuanian. However, the most important is her, Tula, "a dragonfly in a khaki-colored skirt," a kindred soul to Mickiewicz's Maryla. Her lover, secretly burying an urn with her ashes under the floor of a small apartment on the banks of the Vilnia River, carved an inscription on it: "Here lies Tula. God knows her true name..."

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