the main character, victor novikoff is a painter. he works in “the new literary newspaper” in moscow; later he works as an editor in the russian agency "interteleks", which is easily guessed "interfax". the last place of victor novikoff’ work is trell publisher, which very similar to famous publishing astrel, ast group from moscow. he works here as a literary editor and he receives a manuscript in which the plot of islamic terrorist acts describes. he must decide what to do with it. from him it depends largely: whether this manuscript will be accepted for publication as a literary story.