Kharkiv, 2033—a city where everything is wrong. Here, people live on the surface, while the metro is home to sectarians, slave traders, and the most terrifying monsters. A mysterious Circle of Apologists rules here, and on the street you can meet the Iron Soldier or a cowboy.
And for all of them—apologists and raiders, Wahhabis and members of the White Brotherhood, voodooists and “Horsemen of the Apocalypse”—a simple twelve-year-old boy suddenly becomes absolutely necessary. Because the future depends on who finds him first…