Leshа Stakhanov is an ordinary IT guy in St. Petersburg—tired of the routine of endless databases and boring projects. His life is an “office Groundhog Day,” complicated relations with a girlfriend, and dreams of something truly worth doing.
Is he ready to trade the gloomy backups of “KanzPark” and “Vesely Karandash” for a job at a secret research institute and to analyze bursts of unknown energy in anomalous zones?
Welcome to a world where even the most ordinary programmer can end up at the front edge of science… or madness.