The events take place in a fictional South Africa, where a group of neo-fascists conduct secret experiments on people, using psychological weapons.
After a painful break up a journalist is traveling to the Elbrus mountains where he meets another woman.
The story is about how Ivar Kareno tries to publish his philosophical work, refusing to remove radical passages at the professor's request, and fails, being left without a publication, a doctorate, money and a wife.
