Can dreams come true? Or will the world of dreams remain illusory? All his life, Ivan was told that you need to be content with what you have. But Ivan always knew clearly what he wanted to get from life. Failure could not stop him. He learned from his mistakes... Until at one moment a force intervened in his fate, which has power not only over Ivan, but over his entire world. As soon as Vanya achieves success, becomes a billionaire, launches a rocket to Mars to fulfill his dream of colonizing the Red Planet, everything turns into ashes. Does the main character go crazy? Or is someone else writing his story? Or maybe the nightmare began in the distant past, when a little boy saw something he shouldn’t have seen? Or is everything much simpler and the author of this book himself crossed the line separating a genius from a madman?