FSB General Viktor Krasnoperov invites his friends, who are fed up with luxurious life, to take part in a secret experiment. Russian scientists have found a “thread of time” in DNA, on which, like a video recorder, a person’s life is recorded. A scientific discovery turns into entertainment - "dreamtrip" - for the powers that be, who can live the life of their historical idol in a dream. What this will lead to, and whether the general will cope with the temptations of someone else's fate - about all this in the bright novel "The Highest Caste".