The Total Democratic Republic where Andrei Belkin lived seemed to him the very model of justice. Indeed, each citizen had a place in society strictly according to their intellect-status, determined by an impartial computer. But then the moment came when Andrei realized that everything around him was far more complicated, and that invisible puppeteers controlled a person’s fate.
So he must choose: either agree and become a pawn on the chessboard of life, or risk his very life and try to stop the game.