The world is ruled by rationality, and man is ruled by emotions. But when the first subjugates the second, a person ceases to be such - he becomes a cog in the structure of this world. An insignificant cog - the Executor, a more significant one - the Thinker, holding the system together - the Master. Everything depends on the willpower of a person; it’s not for nothing that the Lords are called volins - their strength is so great that they change the laws of nature at their will. What is it like for an ordinary St. Petersburg boy, a son of Russia, to find himself in such a world, in which simple human emotions have always played an exceptional role? Incredibly difficult, unbearably difficult. But Tim Vostretsov is a man, he does not want to become a cog and therefore begins his war for the right to remain a man. The fight is hard, deadly, without any hope of victory...