“The Kraken awakens.” Alarming news comes from different continents: ships are dying under mysterious circumstances, scientific research expeditions are in disaster, and activity of unknown flying objects is observed in disaster areas. What is this – another clash of international political forces or something more terrible? During his investigation, journalist Michael Watson discovers a threat looming over all of humanity. “The Web.” The death of his beloved wife and daughter was a heavy blow for the historian Delgrange. In order to give his life at least some meaning, he decided to participate in the project of Lord Foxfield, who acquired an island in the Pacific Ocean and intended to build an ideal state on it - to create a society independent of any politics and ideology. And now the first settlers enthusiastically land on land as beautiful as the Garden of Eden. But the island was abandoned by the aborigines for a reason...