One person from forty suffers from bipolar affective disorder (before it was called manic-depressive psychosis) in one form or another, while many do not know about their diagnosis.

On the small streets of the town of Paterson, New Jersey, bypassing the corners too close to each other's houses, a large bus crawls. His driver is also the name of Paterson, which will certainly surprise his every new friend. And he is a poet - and this is completely not surprising. Who else can you be in the small homeland of Allen Ginzberg and less known to the Russian -speaking reader, but no less important William Carlos Williams?