When a person plunges into the depths of their subconscious, woven from their own phobias and other people’s illusions, the chances of staying alive and in sound mind are almost none… Private detective Aleksandr Suvorov receives a commission to track down a certain computer specialist named Yuri Raysky. The job doesn’t seem too difficult—he’d had plenty like it. But during the investigation, Suvorov has to endure horrifying trials in which other people’s illusions become his own reality. And the most bizarre, beyond even sick imagination—are puppets, human creations that have grown permanently into a computer network. All the troubles come from them; they decide everything and yet remain completely unmanageable…