Is everything happening around us reality—or an endless dream we see? Or maybe we ourselves are characters in someone else’s fantasies, puppets suspended on strings of чужих сновидінь? Then who is the puppeteer that makes us dance to his tune and changes the scenery whenever he wants? Nonsense, someone will say. But it’s exactly the answers to these questions that determine the fate of Gennady Kalikhin—at first glance, an ordinary unemployed man, one of millions in a metropolis. To answer them means to remember your past, stay alive, and get out of the monstrous experiment that he himself once set in motion. The only question is—will he manage?