NB: This edition is a placeholder for future English translations of this book. The story of the novel begins several hours after the end of Rough Draft, after Kirill Maximov, a regular man who was turned into a functional, escapes from Arkan (or Earth 1), fights his friend and curator of our world (Earth 2 or Demos) Kotya, and kills his midwife-functional Natalia Ivanova. It turns out that the life of an ex-functional after abandoning his function is not safe at all. Especially for a special functional like Kirill.