There are moments in the fate of the world when the proportion of good suddenly tips toward evil. That’s when wars, epidemics, and natural disasters happen. A group of students from the Academy of Initiates—Alice and Oleg among them—went for practical training to Valdai thinking, “Finally, we’ll have real work!” But fate didn’t just set them on useful deeds; it gave them a mission: to lock the doors through which forces of evil may burst into our world. Where can one find keys to those doors? Maybe they’re kept by a little girl trapped in a comatose sleep—whose nightmares Alice is trying to overcome with her? Or perhaps by Oleg’s father, a famous scientist, whom even the teachers of the Initiates are joining in searching for?