What are you willing to lose to stop feeling pain?
He wasn’t looking to change anything—he simply burned out. Every day, Ilya Vorontsov deals with other people’s misfortunes: he turns death, fear, and losses into reports and calculations. He doesn’t trust signs, fate, or “meaningful coincidences.” So the offer to remove one “extra” feeling sounds like a strange joke to him. He agrees—more out of interest than faith. But in the morning, fear really disappears. Then another feeling vanishes. And then another. Breathing becomes easier, living feels lighter, thinking is clearer—until, along with the pain, the reasons to do anything at all begin to dissolve.
This is not a story about getting emotions back. It’s a story about choice: which feelings are truly necessary and which ones seem like extras—until it becomes too late. Through irony, precise observations, and internal conflicts, the hero moves from rational self-control toward a dangerous emptiness, trying to find the line between liberation and losing oneself. The book is for those who are tired of experiencing things too intensely—and for those who are afraid that one day they might feel nothing.