What is it like to be born into a sect, in the remote taiga, and throughout your adult life have a very misleading idea of what is going on in the Big Outside World? If you believe the priest and the old people, then people in the Big Outside World long ago sold their souls to the devil and submitted to demonic machines. But is it really so? For four years now, Yuri Svarin has been secretly observing a tiny piece of the Big Outside World. And what he sees does not in any way correspond to the words of the priest and the old men. Doubts tear Yuri’s soul apart. But what he could not imagine was that one day the Big Outside World would come to their village. And a little later, Yuri will be faced with two incredible questions: “What was that?” and “For what?”