Rasskaz o tihom pastuhe, kotoryy prohodit put ot robkoy strasti do prestupleniya, i o tom, kak eto unichtozhaet cheloveka. Chto proishodit s chelovekom, kogda on perestayot ponimat, radi chego zhivyot? «Ignat»-istoriya cheloveka, okazavshegosya na granitse mezhdu proshlym i buduschim, privychnoy zhiznyu i vnutrennim odinochestvom. Ego perezhivaniya stanovyatsya otrazheniem vechnogo chelovecheskogo poiska-stremleniya nayti smysl, obresti oporu i ponyat sobstvennoe prednaznachenie. Razrushenie privychnogo mira stanovitsya dlya geroya tochkoy, za kotoroy nachinaetsya muchitelnyy poisk samogo sebya i novogo smysla zhizni.
