When life is already at the bottom, whether it's glasses, or broken illusions, or futile efforts to learn from their mistakes, suddenly it appears and everything changes ... It turns out you can fall in love at fifty. But the novel "Trees on the Roofs" is not only about the love of Jacob, a photographer and rebel with a long gray tail and a ball in his ear and black Ukrainian Angelica, but also about the city, like a ship, its houses and trees, and the eatery "Penguin" ", Where" intellectuals and artists "from all surrounding neighborhoods like to gather, and not only, but also about houses, trees and eateries in other cities, about the eternal difficult relationship between artist and alcohol, as well as cats, male friendship and unearthed potatoes in mothers in the village ... In short, it is dedicated to all Ukrainian intellectuals who never read Joyce's Ulysses.