Philosophical and funny, sad and at the same time filling the soul with a trembling foreboding of a miracle, the story-parable of the Tashkent writer Sukhbat Aflatuni was published in the magazine "October" No. 9 in 2006 and was staged at the theater of Mark Weil "Ilkhom" . Lost in time and space, the sun-scorched village comes a new teacher Its appearance disrupts the measured life of people, and somehow more painfully undergo daily tests for humanity. There is a shortage of water here.. It replaces money in this godforsaken corner and seems to serve as the moral measure of the inhabitants. There is no water - and less and less honor, kindness, conscience . “Evil conquers good, because evil is stronger, smarter, more beautiful than good,” says the Teacher. “But a miracle happens, and evil is at a loss.” And the miracle comes scattered letters on the walls of the old bathhouse are added to prayer, and grace descends on the dehydrated, dried-up village streams of water that will henceforth forever change the life of the region for the better.