At midnight on January 31, 1999, two thousand people jump into the sea from a Californian cliff. At midnight on January 31, 999, a thousand residents of a Breton village sit in boats installed high above the ground, waiting for a new global flood. And a man named the Lodger compiles an Apocalyptic Calendar; he is confident that the new millennium - the era of Chaos - began not on January 1, 2000, but on May 7, 1968, and his confidence is contagious. In a whimsical kaleidoscope of images, in a whirlpool of colliding and scattering characters, at the intersection of interdependent and complex love stories, the reader discovers the punk scene of the late 1970s and the extreme porn industry, Tokyo memory hotels - where, unlike love hotels, girls sell not their bodies, but memories – and Los Angeles, which has lost its reality and is saturated with cinematic symbols...