In Askeria - a society of total consumption, where a person is in slavery to goods and services and an ongoing race of achievements - a scientific experiment is being conducted. People's desire to think is being replaced by consumer instinct. Injecting a human gene into a test goose unexpectedly causes it to begin to think and turn into a human. Why does Goose turn out to be more humane than people? Who is to blame for the fact that many moral canons are buried under the tinsel of consumerism? The events of the novel, unfolding around the search for answers to these questions, will take the reader far beyond the boundaries of everyday life. The mysterious Mr. Gaver, the climbers flying across the sky, the creepy hunchback, fire and chases will make you worry, laugh, fear and rejoice for the heroes of the novel.