The author recalls that he sought to imitate the incoherent, but seemingly logical form of the dream. Time and space do not exist, clinging to the tiny basis of reality, the imagination spins its yarn. Heroes split, evaporate, condense, merge together. Above all, the dreamer's consciousness.

In the prologue, Indra's Daughter descends on a cloud to Earth. Indra sends her to find out if the fate of the people is really so hard. Indra's daughter feels the air below is pernicious: it is a mixture of smoke and water. Indra encourages her to be courageous and to endure this test.

Daughter and Glazier come to the castle, which grows directly from the ground. Its roof is crowned with a bud, which, according to the Daughter, is about to blossom. The daughter thinks that the prisoner is languishing in the castle, and wants to free him. Upon entering the castle, she frees the Officer, who sees in her the embodiment of beauty and is ready to suffer, if only he could see her. The Officer and the Daughter look behind the partition wall and see the sick Mother, who tells the Officer that the Daughter is Agnes, the child of Indra. Before death, Mother asks the Officer to never argue with God and not consider herself an offended life. Mother wants to give the maid the mantle that Father gave her: the maid has nothing to go to the christening, and Mother is so sick that she still does not go anywhere. The Father is offended, and Mother is upset: it is impossible to do good to one person without causing harm to another. Daughters feel sorry for people. The officer and Daughter see the Doorman in a shawl, who is crocheting a star blanket, waiting for the groom who left her thirty years ago when she was a ballerina in the theater. The daughter asks the Gatekeeper to lend her a shawl and allow her to sit in her place and look at the human children. The daughter sees the actress crying, who did not receive an engagement. The gatekeeper shows her what a happy person looks like: An officer with a bouquet is waiting for his beloved - Victoria, who promised her her hand and heart. He has been caring for her for seven years and is now waiting for her to come down, but she still does not go. Evening falls, roses wilted, but Victoria did not come. The officer turned gray, autumn came, but he is still waiting for his beloved. The officer is trying to find out what is behind the closed door, but no one knows. He sends for the blacksmith to open it, but instead of the blacksmith comes the Glazier. As soon as the Glazier approaches the door, the Policeman appears and forbids her to open it in the name of the law. The officer does not give up and decides to contact a lawyer. The lawyer complains that he never sees happy people: everyone comes to him to pour out anger, envy, suspicion. Daughter pities people. The lawyer hopes to obtain a doctorate in law and a laurel wreath, but he is denied. The daughter, seeing his suffering and desire to restore justice, lays a crown of thorns on his head. Daughter asks Attorney, is there joy in the world? He replies that the sweetest and most bitter joy is love. The daughter wants to test her and becomes the lawyer's wife, despite the fact that he is poor: if they lose heart, a child will appear and give them comfort.

Christine seals the windows in the house. The daughter complains that she is very stuffy. The lawyer objects that if the windows are not glued, the heat will go away and they will freeze. The child scares customers with his cry. It would be nice to rent a bigger apartment, but no money. The daughter was not used to living in the mud, but neither she nor the Lawyer could clean the floor, and Kristin was busy gluing the windows. The lawyer notes that many live even worse. Upon learning that the Daughter lit a fire with his newspaper, the Lawyer scolds her for carelessness. Although they do not get along, they have to endure each other for the sake of the child. Christine continues to seal the gaps in the house. The lawyer comes out, faced in the doorway with the Officer who came to call Daughter with him to the Bay of Beauty. But instead of the Bay of Beauty, the Officer and Daughter fall into the Strait of Shame. The quarantine manager asks the Officer if they managed to open the door. The officer replies that no, because the trial is still pending. The quarantine chief draws the attention of the Daughter to the Poet, who is going to take a mud bath: he is always in the higher realms, so he misses the mud. In the distance, a white sailboat sailing to the Bay of Beauty is visible. At the helm sitting embraced by He and She. The officer makes them turn into the Shame Strait. He and She go ashore, sad and ashamed. They don’t understand why they got here, but the Quarantine Manager explains to them that it’s not necessary to do anything evil to bring on minor troubles. Now they have to stay here for forty days. Daughter pities people.

In the Bay of Beauty reigns fun, everyone is dancing. Only Edith sits in the distance and is sad: she is not good-looking and no one invites her to dance.

The teacher checks the knowledge of the Officer, but he cannot answer in any way how much will be twice two. Although the officer was awarded a doctorate, he must remain at school until he is mature. The officer also understands that he has not yet matured. He asks Master what time is. The teacher replies that time is what runs while he speaks. One of the students gets up and runs away while the Teacher says, leaves, is he the time? The teacher believes that this is completely correct according to the laws of logic, although insanely.

The officer shows the Daughters of a man whom everyone envies, for he is the richest man in these places. But he also grumbles: he is blind and does not even see his son, whom he has come to see. The blind man argues that life consists of meetings and partings: he met a woman, the mother of his son, but she left him. He has a son left, but now he is leaving him. The daughter comforts the Blind man, saying that his son will return.

The lawyer tells the Daughter that now she saw almost everything except the most terrible. The worst is eternal repetition and return. He calls on the Daughter to return to her duties. Responsibilities are all that she does not want, but must do. The daughter asks if there are pleasant responsibilities? The lawyer explains that responsibilities become enjoyable when fulfilled. The daughter understands that duties are all that are unpleasant, and wants to know what is pleasant then. The lawyer explains to her that the pleasant is a sin, but sin is punishable, and after a pleasantly spent day or evening a person is tormented by remorse. The daughter sighs: it is not easy to be a man. She wants to go back to heaven, but first you need to open the door and find out the secret. The lawyer says that she will have to return to her former rut, go all the way back and relive the whole nightmarish process of repetition, recreation, re-singing, repeating ... The daughter is ready, but first she wants to retire to the desert land in order to find herself. She hears the loud groans of the little miserables from the Shame Strait and wants to free them. The lawyer says that once a liberator appeared, but the righteous crucified him on the cross. Daughter falls on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea. She thinks this is paradise, but she sees two coal miners who carry coal in terrible heat and have no right to either swim or pick an orange from a tree. The coal miners explain to her that every person at least once did a bad deed, but some were punished and now they carry coal in their sweat for days, while others were not punished and sit in a casino and gobble up an eight-course dinner. The daughter is surprised that people do nothing to alleviate their situation. The lawyer says those who are trying to do something end up either in prison or in a lunatic asylum. The place, which seemed to the Daughters as paradise, actually turns out to be a real hell.

The daughter leads the Poet to the ends of the world in a cave, which is called the ear of Indra, because here the heavenly ruler listens to the greed of mortals. The daughter tells the Poet what the wind is groaning about, what the waves are singing about. The poet finds the wreckage of ships, including the one that sailed from the Bay of Beauty. It seems to her daughters that Beauty Bay, and the Strait of Shame, and the "growing castle", and the Officer dreamed about it. The poet says that he composed all this. Poetry is not reality, but more than reality, not a dream, but a waking dream. The daughter feels that she has been down below for too long, on the earth, her thoughts can no longer fly up. She asks for help from her Heavenly father. The poet asks the Indra's Daughter to convey to the Ruler of the world the petition of humanity composed by a dreamer. He gives the daughter a scroll with his poem. The poet notices a ship at a reef. His team prays for help, but when they see the Savior, the sailors jump overboard in fear. The daughter is not sure that they really have a ship in front of her, it seems to her that this is a two-story house, and next to it is a telephone tower reaching the clouds. The poet sees a snowy wasteland, a training ground, on which a platoon of soldiers marching. A cloud falls to the wasteland, closing the sun. Everything disappears. The moisture of the clouds extinguished the fire of the sun. Sunlight created the shadow of the tower, and the shadow of the cloud smothered the shadow of the tower.

The daughter asks the Gatekeeper to call the Deans of the four faculties: now they will open the door, behind which is the solution to the mystery of the world. An officer shining with joy appears with a bouquet of roses: his lover, Victoria, is about to come down. Both the Poet and the Daughters seem to have already seen all this somewhere: either the Poet dreamed it, or he composed it. The daughter recalls that they have already uttered these words somewhere else. The poet promises that soon the daughter will be able to determine what reality is. The Lord Chancellor and the Deans of the four faculties are discussing the door. The Lord Chancellor asks what the Dean of the Faculty of Theology thinks, but he does not think, he believes. The Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy has an opinion, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine knows, and the Dean of the Faculty of Law doubts. The dispute flares up. The daughter accuses them all of sowing doubt and discord in the minds of young people, in response to which the Dean of the Law Faculty accuses the daughter on behalf of all the righteous that she arouses doubt in the youth of their authority. They drive her, threatening violence. The daughter calls the Poet with him, promising him that he will soon learn the key to the mystery of the world. The door is opening. The righteous shout “cheers,” but they see nothing. They shout that the Daughter deceived them: there is nothing behind the door, the Daughter says that they understood nothing. The righteous want to beat her. The daughter is about to leave, but the lawyer takes her hand and reminds her that she has responsibilities. The daughter replies that she obeys the command of the highest duty. The lawyer says that the child is calling her, and she understands how much she is attached to the earth. She feels remorse, the only salvation from which is to fulfill her duty. The daughter is very suffering. She says that everything around her is her children. Each of them is good alone, but as soon as they come together, they begin to quarrel and turn into demons. She leaves Lawyer.

Daughter and Poet at the walls of a castle growing out of the ground. The daughter realized how hard it is to be a man. The poet reminds her that she promised to reveal to him the secret of the world. The daughter says that at the dawn of the time of Brahma, the divine principle, he allowed the mother of the world of Maya to seduce herself in order to multiply. This contact of the divine primal mother with the earth became the fall of heaven. Thus, peace, life, people are nothing more than a phantom, visibility, sleep. To free themselves from earthly matter, the descendants of Brahma seek deprivation and suffering. But the need for suffering is faced with a thirst for pleasure, or with love. There is a struggle between the pain of pleasure and the pleasure of suffering. This struggle of opposites gives rise to power. The daughter suffered on earth much more strongly than people, because her sensations are more subtle. The poet asks her what caused her the most severe suffering on earth. The daughter replies that her existence is: a feeling that her eyesight is weakened by her eyes, her hearing is blunted by her ears, and the thought is entangled in a labyrinth of fat convolutions. To shake off the dust from her feet, the Daughter takes off her shoes and throws them into the fire. The Gatekeeper enters and throws her shawl into the fire, the Officer - his roses, on which there are only thorns, and the Glazier - his diamond, which opened the door. The theologian throws a martyrology into the fire, for he can no longer protect God, who does not protect his children. The poet explains to the Daughters who these martyrs are for their faith. The daughter explains to him that suffering is redemption and death is redemption. The poet read that when life is nearing its end, everything and everything sweeps past. Daughter says goodbye to him. She enters the castle. Music is heard. The castle lights up, and the bud on its roof blossoms into a giant chrysanthemum flower. On the backdrop, lit by the flame of a burning castle, many human faces emerge - surprised, saddened, desperate ...