The hero of Olga Slavnikova’s new novel, Maxim T. Ermakov, has conquered the capital: he is a successful manager of a large company selling chocolate. One day, strange officials from the Department of Causal Relations come to him and tell him that he must... shoot himself. So he will save millions of people! However, suicide is not at all included in Maxim’s plans, and events are rapidly gaining momentum. It seems that the whole city is demonstrating against the hero, he is pelted with tomatoes at the office door, and an extremely realistic computer game appears on the Internet, the goal of which is to shoot a hero very similar to Maxim...