September 1974. Soviet Union...Fourteen-year-old Anton bet with his friends that he would spend the night at the Kuntsevo cemetery, chaining himself to the grave fence. He does not believe in the living dead, but when he sees a white figure wandering between the graves, he can hardly restrain himself from screaming wildly... Ten years later, Anton is a newly minted engineer who works at the Research and Production Association named after. Lavochkin, where interplanetary stations are being built. Anton is one of the participants in the legendary Vega project, supervised by the State Security Committee. The romantic of space exploration does not even suspect that the mysterious meeting in the cemetery, which he had long forgotten about, and his work are directly connected. And that the future of the USSR depends on whether Anton manages to remember the girl with the mysterious name Veila...