The hero of this novel by Olga Slavnikova, Maxim T. Ermakov, has conquered the capital. He’s a successful manager of a large company selling chocolate. But one day strange officials from the Department of Cause-and-Effect Relations arrive, hand him a pistol, and tell him that he must… shoot himself. That would save millions of people!
However, suicide is not in the manager’s plans at all, and events quickly spin out of control. It seems the whole city is staging demonstrations against him; someone throws tomatoes at the doors of his office; and on the Internet appears an extremely realistic computer game whose goal is to shoot a man who looks very much like Maxim…