It all started when another noise about aliens arose in the newspapers. Very soon it became known what exactly could be obtained from them. Health. The aliens cured almost any patient whom doctors refused. The person signed an obligation for a period of three to ten years, very rarely more depending on the severity of the illness. He was obliged to work in an unknown place, where he had to do something unknown for the entire term. There was no provision for early termination of the contract. Those who returned did not remember anything and could not tell, and not all of them returned. The question of saving his mother from death or not signing the contract did not arise for Alexey.