A story about complicated relationships between escaped refugee and a young girl he took hostage.

A barman from an elite bar for Soviet nomenklatura is greedy and not a true Leninist at all. Someone who in the Soviet Union often becomes an 'easy pray' for evil CIA agents. The barman from the "Golden Anchor" is about to become a CIA agent himself but his friends and families help him to find some Soviet patriotism inside his soul.

In an ordinary industrial Soviet town, notable only for presence of a radio-telescope, people start behaving strangely, in a robotic manner, while assuming geometry-inspired aliases and organizing into a new hierarchy. The phenomenon spreads via a device of alien origin, called “the mediator”, capable of implanting extraterrestrial minds into human bodies. The aliens are bound by limitations of the terrestrial technology, having to use the means at the disposal of humans to prepare the grounds for the full-scale invasion. With “the mediator" being unable to subdue minds of children, lunatics, geniuses, and rebels, a struggle over the fate of the town and the human civilization ensues.

He is overly intelligent... He is genius... And he's just trying to make his life a little bit better in an new era post-communist Russia.