Along the Great Ring of the peninsula, trains often carry a boy named Matyush with the nickname Ezhiki—an unfortunate and sad orphan. Riding the trains, he remembers his mother: her recorded voice announces the names of stations in the underground. And then one day…
A voice announces something new—“Anchor Field.” And the voice is his mother’s! But there was no such station before…
Ezhiki gets off and finds himself in a strange place…