“Do not wish evil to your neighbor,” “Love your neighbor as yourself”… These were only words for Igor Loginov, a modest intern at a law office—until a meeting in a night winter forest with a mysterious stranger awakens in him astonishing abilities. Now his emotions can directly affect the world around him and its inhabitants: negative ones bring pain, death, and destruction, while positive ones can heal even hopelessly ill people. Trying to cope with his capricious and unpredictable gift and to hide it from others, Igor resorts to every trick—but all in vain: forces whose existence he never suspected are already nurturing their plans for a young E-mage. In the end, he joins them in a brutal battle to defend life and freedom—his own as well as those of his friends and loved ones. A battle that seems hopeless. But only seems so, because he gains a most unexpected ally.