Fashion photographer Laura is gaining fame by shooting her exclusive models, full of erotic charge, on the streets of the metropolis, where violence and crime reign.
Suddenly, under strange circumstances, several of Laura's friends are killed. He is in a panic, because he experiences every murder in his consciousness, like the eye of a camera.
The central character of this novel is Anna, a woman with three children and a writer husband, obsessively preoccupied with writing a book about the Czech storyteller Bohumil Hrabal.
"In the World" is the second part of Maxim Gorky's autobiographical trilogy, published in 1916. The trilogy includes the works "Childhood", "In the World", and "My Universities", providing insight into the author's formative years.