In the house of an elderly, dying-from-sarcoma oligarch Silin, an unusual guest arrives. He introduces himself as a professor of neurobiology and offers to transplant the old man's consciousness into a young clone. However, there is a catch: during the transplantation, donors experience monstrous, hellish pain that no one can endure. No one, except for the conduit - a free human consciousness that once lost its own body. To make everything work, the conduit's consciousness will have to be implanted into Silin's brain...