A sniper spent his younger years in Moscow and now returns to this city, which has changed during his absence. Every street is covered with ads for a new device—the neurophone. Consumed by advertising, the city’s residents don’t notice how their lives are beginning to be controlled by augmented reality.
The sniper suspects these technologies aren’t as safe as their manufacturers claim. He wonders who is promoting these dangerous gadgets and why—and what price users will have to pay for artificial happiness.