"What is the policy of burying particularly distinguished people?" – asks the manager of the municipal cemetery. "First of all, you have to be guided by the honest attitude of a party member" - he replies after a moment. These and other similar "reflections on the passing of time" give an answer to how one should have lived in the communist system in order to deserve a burial place in the alley of the distinguished (or at least in the alley of the "meritorious").