By the will of unknown players, the destinies of different people are intertwined into a tight knot. But neither the pirate Joker, nor the oligarch Viktor Vershinin, nor the mysterious Performers even realize that they are toys in the hands of powerful creatures - the Anunaki from the closed planet Nibiru, who once visited the Earth. Living their lives and acting as they naturally do, people become pawns in a game that has been going on for many millennia and the ultimate goal of which is unknown.