The title story of the collection transports the reader to a distant future. A time machine has been invented, but humanity doesn’t use it for good purposes. Now it’s the Machine of Punishments, which executes the undesirable by transferring their minds into the body of a person who died a mysterious and terrifying death. Prisoner IУ-77 Andrey Ostrovtsov has to complete the entire journey with the Dyatlov group, learning firsthand what happened to nine tourists.