Nearly two intense and productive years have slipped out of the memory of the successful writer Andrei Korin. It is believed to be the result of a car accident. But the more energetically he tries to recover the lost time, the more obvious it becomes—the cause is much deeper. Like in a mirror, he studies the people around him, piecing together his past bit by bit. And more and more often his gaze turns inward, because the reason for this strange amnesia lies in himself. What act from his past made his consciousness push aside a piece of his life? Who is around him—friends or enemies? Where does the danger come from—after all, someone tried to kill him twice? And what will he see when his memory suddenly regains its clarity?