A chain of incredible events governed by some sick and cruel logic leads Yegor Solovyov and Andrey Belkin—each in his own way—to an understanding of one truth. Everything happening around them is a big game started by someone, for reasons unknown, and run according to the rule: the one who joins second can never win. All that remains is either to agree to everything offered and become a pawn on the chessboard of life, or, risking that very life, try to stop the game.