Valerian Pidmohylnyi wanted to write a novel in which the ship's master would be a woman. And he wrote 'A Little Drama' - a novel about new relationships, a new way of life, a new morality and eternal questions that arise in the unexpected surprises of the age of technological progress. Crazy irrational passion or cold rational calculation - who will emerge victorious from the duel? Is victory even possible if both love and suffering are just standard squirrel reactions? Pidmohylnyi masterfully plays out a small drama on a chamber stage, the name of which is life. This is one of the best philosophical novels in Ukrainian literature of the 20th century.