The man-box, sitting in his box, proceeds to notes on the man-box. It describes in detail which drawer is suitable for a human drawer, how to equip it so that it is convenient to be in it in any weather, what things a human drawer needs. The most suitable box is corrugated cardboard. In the box, you should cut a window and hang it with a polyethylene curtain, cut in half: with a short movement of the head to the right or left, the edges of the curtains are slightly moved apart, and you can see everything that is done around. At the moment when a person gets into a cardboard box and goes out into the street, both the box and the person disappear, and a completely new creature appears - the box-person.

Each boxer has a story. Here is A.'s story. A boxer man settled under his windows. His presence annoyed A. very much, and so that the box-man would get out, A. shot him with a blowgun. The box man left, and A. began to forget about him. But one day A. bought a new refrigerator. When he pulled it out of the box, he irresistibly wanted to get into the box himself. Every day, returning from work, he spent some time in a box from the refrigerator, and a week later he became so close to him that he no longer wanted to get out of it. Putting on a box, A. went outside and never returned home.

The man-box, making notes, writes on his own behalf, then on someone else’s, his narrative is monologic, sometimes dialogical, and it is often impossible to understand where we are talking about people who are the fruit of his imagination, and where about other heroes of the story, and it’s not even clear if there are any, this stream of consciousness and narrative is so bizarre.

The box man sits on the canal under the bridge over which the motorway passes, and is waiting for the girl who promised to buy his box for fifty thousand yen. A few days ago, a drawer man urinated while standing at the fence of his factory. Suddenly he heard a click and felt a sharp pain in his shoulder. As a professional photographer, he managed to photograph a man who, having shot at him from a blowgun, rushed to run. Blood flowed from the wound of the human box. Suddenly, a girl rode up on a bicycle, who said that there was a clinic close to the mountain, and slipped three thousand yen into the box window so that the box person had something to pay for treatment.

When the box man came to the clinic, it turned out that the man who shot was the doctor of this clinic, and the girl was a nurse. While the box-man was in the clinic, the girl smiled affectionately at him and listened with interest to the tales he had told her. At some point, the box man promised to get a box for the girl for fifty thousand yen. After leaving the clinic, the box man felt ill and vomited for a long time. He suspects that he was pumped with drugs without his knowledge. He waits a long time, finally the girl comes and throws fifty thousand yen and a letter from the bridge, where he asks him before the ebb comes, to tear the box and throw it into the sea. The box man reflects on the true intentions of the girl. He does not want to return to the former world, he would be glad to leave the box only if he could, like the insect with which the metamorphosis occurred, lose his shell in another world. Secretly, he hopes that a meeting with a girl will give him such an opportunity and a new, unknown creature will appear from the larva of a human box.

The box man decides to talk to the girl, return the money to her and cancel the contract. Approaching the clinic, he uses a car mirror to observe what is happening in one of the rooms. There, the girl is talking to another drawer, a double of the writer. This second man-box is undoubtedly a doctor, he is a false man-box. At first, it seems to the boxer as if he had already seen this scene somewhere, even been a participant in it, then he comes to the conclusion that this is not a memory, but a dream. He enjoys looking at a naked girl. He recalls her story about himself. She was a poor artist student and made a living by posing. Two years ago, she had an abortion in this clinic, and, having no means to pay for treatment, she remained in her work as a nurse. Most of all, she liked the work of a model, and if the doctor had not been opposed, she would have continued to pose now. The boxer is jealous of his double. The drawer man is sure that getting out of the drawer is not worth anything, but he believes that if so, then there’s nothing to get out in vain, but still he would really like to reach out to someone.

The box man on an empty beach tidies himself up, getting ready to leave the box forever. He sees ahead of the exit from the tunnel:

“If the box is a moving tunnel, then naked is a blinding light at the exit from it.” He is going to come to the clinic by eight o’clock. The appointment begins at ten, so that he will have enough time to explain everything to the girl, and if necessary, to the doctor-man-box. The box man imagines his conversation with a girl. He would have told her that he used to carefully follow all the news, he wrote out a lot of newspapers, installed two televisions and three radios. But one day he saw a dead man on the street. As a professional reporter, he wanted to take a picture of him, but changed his mind because he realized: this case is hardly suitable for news. After all, people listen to the news only to calm down. No matter what terrific news a person is told, since he is listening to it, that means he is alive. Since then, the man-box has ceased to follow the news. Among people who are not interested in news, there are no villains, he said.

The false man-box is so similar to the man-box that it seems to the man-box that the one who is looking is he, and the one who is looking is also he. The false man-box offers the man-box to do whatever he wants, for example, to enter into any relationship with the girl, provided that the false man-box can watch them all the time: after all, while in the box, he will not harm anyone and he can be safely ignore. The box man himself is used to spying, but he is by no means ready to spy on him. The false man-box reproaches him that in fact he is not going to part with the box, and, despite assurances that the box is over, writes his notes while in the box. The boxer has to admit that his interlocutor is a figment of his imagination. In reality, there is only one person writing these notes. And since this man is desperately clinging to his box, he intends to endlessly write his notes. The box man tells his interlocutor that when he finishes his box, these notes will disappear, and with them his interlocutor - the false man-box, he is a doctor.

The interlocutor catches the box-man on the contradiction: the box-man claims that he wrote only one hour thirty-four minutes, while the notes take fifty nine pages, so the false box-man considers himself entitled to assume that the author of the notes is not a box-man, but who something else, and he writes them elsewhere. For example, the author of the notes may be a false man-box, who writes, imagining a man-box, who writes in his turn, imagining a false man-box. The author of the notes notes that, regardless of who writes, the story moves extremely stupidly.

S. gives written evidence. He was born on March 7, 1926. He served in the army as a nurse under the command of a military doctor and first helped him, and then he began to practice medicine under his guidance and with his knowledge. After the war, S. under the name of this doctor, with the knowledge of the latter, continued to independently practice medical practice. S. last year lived in an unregistered marriage with N., the former legal spouse of a military doctor, who, as a nurse, helped S. in work. But when a year ago, S. hired a trainee nurse, Yoko Toyama, N. broke up with him. During the war, the military doctor became seriously ill, and S. at his request began to give him morphine injections. As a result, the military doctor became an addict.

After the war, he kept S. with him, because he could not do without his help. But gradually the mental state of the military doctor began to deteriorate, finally he has a desire to commit suicide. begged the military doctor to refuse suicide at least temporarily, but the military doctor in return demands that he be increased the dose of the drug and allowed to admire the nudity of the brand new nurse. At the suggestion of the wife of a military doctor, S. turned into a military doctor and registered a clinic for himself, and the military doctor stopped all relations with the outside world. suggests that the military doctor convinced himself that, together with his name, origin, rights, transferred S. and all of himself as a person, and himself turned into nothing. He doesn’t know the reason the military doctor put on a cardboard box. He probably did this following the example of a tramp who was wandering around the city for several months. But maybe this tramp was a military doctor, who, leaving the house, put on a box. In any case, some people saw how the box-man left the clinic and entered it.

When the corpse of a man-box was thrown ashore on the coastal boulevard T., traces of numerous injections were found on it, which led to suspicions about the connection of the man-box with the clinic and as a result made it possible to identify the corpse.

Apparently, a military doctor seems to be writing to his accomplice, who should help him put an end to his life and pass him off as a drowned man. did not send a girl to him whose nudity is a necessary condition for suicide, from which the author of the notes concludes that his hour has come. gives him two injections of morphine, then kills him, and when he dies, pours water from a canister into his mouth to pass him off as a drowned man. Notes break off at a glance. In the last insert in the manuscript, the author says that he wants to appear in his true guise and honestly tell what his true purpose is. In everything that has been written so far, there is not a drop of lies, for this is only a figment of the imagination. The fastest way to get closer to the truth is not to find out who the real boxer is, but to establish who is not real.

Man-box finally got to the clinic. A sign is hanging on the locked doors that there is no reception. He presses the bell button and a woman lets him in the building. The box man suspects that she mistook him for a false box man (or a false doctor), and begins to explain to her that he is a real box man, the one who was waiting for her the night before under the bridge, a former photographer. The woman demands that he immediately remove the box. The boxman explains to her that he is naked - the boys pulled his pants off while he was sleeping. So that he is not so embarrassed, the woman also strips naked. A man crawls out of a box and hugs a woman. He admits to her that he was a fake box man, but the notes are real, they came to him from a real box man after his death. For about two months, two naked people live together, trying to be as close to each other as possible. But the day comes when a woman dresses and silently looks at her roommate. Now his nudity begins to look endlessly miserable, and he crawls back into his drawer. Instead of crawling out of the box, he prefers to lock the whole world into it. “Just now, the world must close its eyes. And he will become what I imagine him to be, ”the boxer muses. Turning off the light and removing the drawer, he enters the woman’s room naked, but the space, which has always been a room, suddenly turns into an alley near some station. He is looking for a woman, but to no avail.

The man-box makes an important addition to the description of the box device: it is imperative that you leave enough free space for notes in it. The fact is that the box inside is an extremely confusing space, and it is undoubted that a woman disappears somewhere in this maze. She didn’t run away; she simply couldn’t find the place where the box-man was now. When there are many guiding threads, there are as many truths as there are such threads.

An ambulance siren is heard.