In a future in which human-like androids have become commonplace companions and servants, one, with a handsome male appearance, finds its owner's feelings difficult to understand and her desires impossible to fulfill.
An experienced virologist, Anya Markova, gives up her personal and professional life in Moscow and moves to work at a research center in Novosibirsk. She is clearly trying to escape from some personal pain, but in a new place fate throws the heroine another test - an outbreak of an unknown disease is recorded at the site of an illegal dump of a large meat processing plant in a remote village.
Masha Krapivina - is yet beautiful, and not that clever. She is just an ordinary girl, like thousands of her peers from different parts of the country, who risked to try to conquer Moscow and left their native country town.
