On the Peninsula’s Great Ring trains, a boy named Matyush is often seen—he is nicknamed Yozhiki (“Hedgehogs”). He is an orphan—quiet, lonely, and sad. Riding the circular route again and again, he listens to the familiar announcement of stations that is painfully familiar: the recording contains his mother’s voice, left in place of the real meeting he never had. But one day, a new unfamiliar name appears in the usual list—“Anchor Field.” And she pronounces it—his mother. Only such a station had never existed before. Matyush steps onto the platform and finds himself in a place unlike any of the known stops—strange and unclear.