The promising athlete Yuri Sergeev did not know what the word “kumite” meant. These are illegal full contact fights held in every major city in the world, from New York to Los Angeles to Hong Kong. And the main thing is not only combat, it is the art of intrigue: the ability to weave a web, to entangle the network so subtly that a person, having fallen into a terrible trap, himself rejoices in the fact that he is... already a victim. A victim who does not even know the depth of the abyss from which she will never be able to climb up. In the jargon of clever businessmen who know how to turn the capabilities of the human body into money, this sacrifice is called the short word “meat”. Those who fall into these snares—young talented athletes in the prime of their skill and strength—do not even live to see 30 years of age. There are only two ways out of the kumite arena: either to complete disability, or to the next world... It seems that Sergeev has something to think about...