In the work - two storylines, each of which develops independently. The first action takes place in Moscow over several May days (days of the spring full moon) in the 30s. XX century, the second action also takes place in May, but in the city of Yershalaim (Jerusalem) almost two thousand years ago - at the very beginning of a new era. The novel is built in such a way that the chapters of the main storyline are interspersed with the chapters that make up the second storyline, and these insertion chapters are either chapters from the master’s novel, or the story of an eyewitness to the events of Woland.