Exhausted Man is about a man who wants nothing more than to do nothing. Gradually, this strange interest in laziness fades away, and the protagonist realizes that he needs to do something exciting in order to hold out at such a job as long as possible and again not fall into a life and moral crisis. But it turns out that the poor fellow has no strength to act; he is used to being an amorphous and gray mouse among his colleagues, not striving for heights and swimming exclusively with the flow.