One morning, the criminal authority Dad convenes three "sons" and tells the latest news. Everyone remembers how three years ago, the keeper of the regional communal Mule ran away, taking the money. Also, everyone remembers how he was found, punished and buried. And the news is like this. Yesterday Mulya, alive and well, was seen in three cities at once: St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Rostov. Dad sends "sons" to these cities to scout out what's what. For each of them, the journey will not be the easiest.
In the near future, writer Victor Banev gets himself on a UN commission to investigate what's going on in the remote town of Tashlinsk, where reports tell of a virus-created race of brainiac mutants. Banev's tween daughter Ira is enrolled at a school for gifted children which has been taken over by the mutants, who have grown to despise ordinary humanity.
The protagonist finds out that some children were left behind in a sinking school, and is slowly driven mad as he tries to save them. A parable on the theme of the Last Judgment, numerous catastrophic events reveal a certain ambiguity in their origins, accompanied by the terrible suspicion that the things going on are some kind of a performance or theatrical production.
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La civilización humana ha sido destruida, aunque quedan vestigios de ella. Un hombre llega a un paraje con la intención de visitar un famoso museo que ha quedado aislado en medio del mar. Los habitantes del lugar, que mantienen ciertas costumbres del pasado, se relacionan con unos extraños seres embrutecidos, que viven aislados en una especie de colonia. El interés del visitante por el museo se va transformando en una obsesión por entender las manifestaciones religiosas de los confinados.
