Our contemporary, a man who has arranged his life and the life of his family and is about to reap the pleasant fruits of many years of effort, suddenly receives an unexpected offer. An alien, forced to part with his physical body and rushing about with his thin shell in the astral plane, trying to throw powerful enemies off the scent, asks for help. For his willingness to share his body with him for a couple of years, until several unpleasant surprises ripen for his enemies, he offers wealth, power, health, for much is given to one of the most skillful magicians of a distant planet. Will the deal take place? Why does our hero agree to risk a quiet life and a healthy mind? And is it possible to let a stranger’s soul into you? And if not a person?