The fighters of the rapid response group, who went out for the next operation to detain criminals, could not even imagine what awaited them in the suburban forest. Psychiatrist Viktor Samopalov had to puzzle for a long time over the mystery of a very strange patient, Igor Kovalev, who calls himself the Demiurge. And when you rack your brain for a long time, it is fraught with consequences. If American astronauts had been told how their secret flight to Mars would end, they would not have believed it and would have laughed heartily. But it turned out that they were not laughing at all...