This volume brings together the satirical pieces that Sławomir Mrożek wrote for Polish radio in the 1960s and where he portrayed, with his unmistakable sly look, the imaginative solutions that it is possible to give to the obstacles that the universe of the universe poses on a daily basis. omnipresent bureaucracy. The succession of absurdities in the imaginary and timeless world conceived by the writer becomes a hilarious catalog of human folly, no less accurate because it is ridiculous. This revealing collection of brilliant nonsense is completed by the short radio monologue titled "The Water", in which the protagonist faces a mysterious leak that challenges his sanity: who will win?