...On the one hand, he recognized himself as Thomas Morgenstern, a first-year student at the University of the Austrian town of Klagenfurt. On the other hand, he was an ordinary hobbit, Thomas Matinee, originally from the provincial village of Zemleroysk. Only one thing was the same: in both cases he was eighteen years old with a tiny tail. Moreover, for some reason he was firmly convinced that this “eighteen-odd” had the most direct relation to what was happening...

From computer games to games in the real world - it’s just one step. Gamers are strange people . And rich gambling addicts, on top of everything else, are very dangerous. Dangerous - first of all - for ordinary people... What is our life? A game! But which of us is a full-fledged Player? And who is an ordinary boring pawn on a chessboard, subject to someone else’s will? And, most importantly, who will ultimately win?