Natalya Alekseevna Svirepaya (nicknamed Tashka), at the thirteenth year of her life, graduated from high school, and as a trainee she joined the Novosibirsk Institute of Cybernetics, a laboratory developing the second generation of artificial intelligence. But this story is not only about Tashka. It's also about a giant city under Antarctic ice. About artificial intelligence and their difficult relationship with programmers.