The play, staged by N. Erdman's play "Suicide", is both sharply satirical and full of profound philosophical meaning. Is not life of the highest value?

Semyon Podsekalnikov lost his job, his wife is forced to earn a family, and so it became unbearable for Podselykalnikov to lead a dependent way of life, that he decided to live with life ...

Yes, that's just not so easy it was to commit suicide! As all of them found out about it, they began begging Podsekalnikov ... no, not to live on, and "self-assemble" for some idea! For the sake of freedom of the intelligentsia to shoot himself or at least in the name of unrequited love. Draws draw familiar acquaintances, decide for whose idea the unfortunate Podselykalnikov with him will finish ...

But the hero in the meantime changed his mind about dying: he suddenly wanted to live!