At not quite twenty-five years old, Ilya already understood perfectly well that an attempt to fulfill the request of a young and pretty girl could end sadly. But even he did not expect such catastrophic consequences. The girl turned out to be a pioneer in trouble from the distant Communist Union of Nations, and a recent student is now firmly connected with a mysterious interdimensional Anomaly, awakened by the experiments of the Communards, which took the name “Melkor”. And this is only one, not the most important of Ilya’s problems. The Communards have their own plans, and they are not going to stand on ceremony with the guy. The goals of Melkor himself are precisely unknown to anyone. And the misty ghosts of “shaori” are capable of destroying everyone they can reach, and something needs to be done about this too before it’s too late...