People are no longer afraid of death, they no longer lose loved ones. The soul that has the Ticket goes to the Land of Eternal Summer. It is almost impossible to lie there, because reading the soul is as easy as an open book. But not everything is so simple. People remain people - they intrigue, they fight for power. The constant rivalry between the intelligence departments of Britain and the USSR almost leads to a new war. Rachel White, an intelligence officer for the Winter Directorate (living), while hunting for a “mole”, discovers that there is a threat worse than the ambitions of those in power.