The distant future described in the story “Border Guards” does not seem so distant compared to what is presented in the following work. This time, the author takes readers into a world inhabited by an improved human race, and poses a very complex and important question: is it possible to live too long? Too successful in life? Have you ever wanted to achieve everything? To reach the point when there is nothing worthwhile left to do, and the world can no longer surprise you with anything? And when the affirmative answer already suggests itself, the Universe unexpectedly throws up a whole series of unexpected surprises and unsolved mysteries...