St. Petersburg, 2060. For ten years now, humanity has been controlled by artificial intelligence that emerged from the depths of a Chinese secret IT company. Any hint of resistance is suppressed, every thought and word is closely watched by thousands of devices. The main character Sasha is one of the few who refused to accept the new order and still hopes that he will find a way to return freedom to people. Society rejects people like him and calls them “rats,” but he firmly stands his ground. And then one day he finds himself in a strange community holding meetings in an abandoned Buddhist temple... This story rethinks the dystopian genre and surprises until the very end. In addition to the unusual plot, the author offers the reader a deeply researched and realistic version of our future coexistence with artificial intelligence.