The turn of the millennium. Our country. A young Ph.D. creates a working prototype of a controlled gravity device and demonstrates it to two Presidents. Academy of Sciences and Russia. Glory, wealth, the possibility of fulfilling the cherished dream - to bring humanity to the vastness of the solar. But on the road to the future, Vitaly Galanov will have different fellow travelers, and what is it like to be the one on whom they look? Believing, envying, evaluating and other others...