Barely entering the age of electronics, humanity began to create games, virtual worlds. But there, outside the borders that we have not yet learned, other civilizations live, much older than us, and they have their own games, their own interests. And so, somewhere there they decided that our time had come... time will join the huge somn of other worlds. True, not everything is so simple, and free cheese, as you know, is only in a mousetrap. In the meantime, the Earth departs from the shock of the first contact and tries to understand what happened, the main character of the novel has a much easier task - he would survive.