The author of popular novels Vlad learns that his wife is going to leave him for another man. In order to keep the woman he loves by his side, he fakes an injury that makes him disabled, believing that she will not leave him in this state. Despite everything, he hopes to get his love back. Where ordinary people's fantasy ends, the writer's reality begins. The nature of this strange relationship becomes the material for his new novel, "The Shield of Minerva."