Russian immigrant, resident of Zurich, former journalist, now watch consultant Vladimir Zavertaev pours out his soul to the reader. The narrative is nonlinear, the hero continually dives into the past. And from pages 172 to 176 to sleep. Well, if in a straight line, then four months of existence are printed into 286 pages. The text is permeated with elegant irony and philosophical observations, which will give the reader many pleasant moments. Like the heroes of Fenimore Cooper and Rudyard Kipling, another character of Vsevolod Bernstein, a certain Alexander Komin, is a “slave of a bright idea,” but is forced to hide. He is a philosopher and poet, who during his lifetime became the legendary Alex Kay and “young Gandhi”, has thousands of supporters all over the planet, but his “humane terrorism” is only a fragile cog in the powerful clockwork of the “aligned allies” who are far from lyrical.