Hacker Dmitry Gorev gets into trouble: he tries to hack the files of the Merlin-Press company, which he himself handed over a defective computer, and a couple of bandits, known in certain circles as the Bosun and the Captain, rush after him. Escaping, Dmitry and his friend Tolik inexplicably find themselves in another world, where different laws reign, where you can meet a dragon and not recognize it, where creatures descended from ordinary potatoes live next to people, and where, to Dima’s joy, there is also “ Pewters”, though very unusual. Dmitry and Tolik are captured by intelligent plants. And everything around them is strangely familiar...