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.