St. Petersburg, 2060th year . For ten years, mankind has been ruled by artificial intelligence, which broke out of the depths of the Chinese secret IT company Any hint of resistance is suppressed, every thought and word is closely watched by thousands of devices. The main character Sasha is one of the few who refused to accept the new order and still hopes that he will find a way to return people to freedom. Such as he society rejects and calls "rats", but he stands firm on his . And then one day he finds himself in a strange community, holding meetings in an abandoned Buddhist temple ... This story reinterprets the genre of dystopia and surprises until the very end. In addition to the unusual plot, the author offers the reader a deeply developed and realistic version of our future coexistence with artificial intelligence.