The action takes place in a gloomy dystopian state, where social inequality is strictly and clearly defined using a personal number. It is he who determines the social status and, as a consequence, the well-being and rights of a particular citizen. This state of affairs is extremely depressing for the main character Yaroslav, whose family is barely making ends meet. Yaroslav is trying with all his might to find at least some light in their gloomy existence, but it seems that everything is against them. And yet the hero does not lose hope, because, as you know, she is the last to die. Hope lives thanks to the fact that Yaroslav is excited by memories of some past greatness of the empire, although he does not fully understand what it was. Will he be able to reveal this secret?