The Third World War has died down, died down. The aliens have been successfully expelled from Earth. Karl Schmeling is bored in his luxurious castle above Volkhov. An artifact that looks like an old book falls into Schmelling’s hands. And this really turns out to be a textbook - a textbook for a superman. But you have to pay for everything in the world. For knowledge - sadness, and for the ability to walk through walls, read minds and see in the dark - the lives of other people. Karl Schmelling turns into an energy vampire; from now on he is doomed to kill people in order to maintain his own existence. He turns his beloved, Brünnhilde Pokatikamen, into a superman. A jealous husband organizes a new crusade against her lovers, and then the real owner of the book arrives in Novgorod...