Is it possible for a future in which the life of each person has its own price, and the consumer attitude of people towards each other reaches its limit? Will new technologies help prolong youth or protect our own children from all dangers? Where to look for the meaning of existence for people locked by civilization within the walls of modern cities? Who knows the truth about the world around us? This is the second part of the collection of fantastic stories. Reality in them borders on fiction, some innovations are replaced by others, but people with their dreams, desires, passions remain unchanged, and everything described may well or could happen somewhere nearby.