This City occupies three-quarters of the country's area, and each of its many Districts has its own rules. In Red they shoot in the streets, in Sound they communicate with gestures and confiscate squeaky shoes, in Fnapha they believe that the soul is shaped like a frisbee and try to throw it into heaven, and people have long been driven out of the Kot District by tailed inhabitants. And, of course, the residents of the City have enough problems. But there is a master of solving them - a private detective named Stark. This time, a friend from the Central District, Junior Supervisor of the Department of Really Urgent Work Pushing, hires him to find a missing specialist in Real Understanding of the Essence of Things. The trail begins in the forbidden Region, which has long cut off contact with the outside world, but leads much further than a person can imagine - into the world of dreams and into the depths of memory. Where for Stark there is only one way - only forward...