The entire life of mankind has long been dependent on electricity. It powers locks and life support systems in houses, moves cars, subway trains and planes, controls rockets, tanks and machine guns, charges all phones and navigators. And then, all of a sudden, the electricity just... disappears. And while ordinary people try to find food and warm their cooling homes, and the useless officials and bureaucrats exchange countless orders and figure out who is in charge, the most far-sighted minds begin to wonder: what , if electricity never returns?