Ekaterina Semina

The Incompleteness Syndrome

March 1965. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space. What both superpowers aim for in this race, is to be the first to have a man walk in outer space. To accomplish that, no price is too high and no risk is too great. Now it’s up to the unlikely duo of a seasoned war veteran and a hot-headed test-pilot to fulfill this mission. Two men in a tiny spaceship, without proper testing, facing the complete unknown. They were supposed to do what no man has done before—and no man imagined what would happen next.

The protagonist of the series is 30-year-old gamer Igor, who does not think that it is time to grow up. Waking up in the morning in a room where cans of energy drinks and gamepads are scattered is a common thing for him - he does not feel the passage of time and can play around the clock. Any questions and difficulties in his life are usually solved by relatives, he is completely unorganized for an independent life.

In the center of the story are former lovers who have to go a long and dangerous path in order to save their son and find a common language with each other again. A young veterinarian from Moscow, Vasily Bulatov, is kidnapped by a group of terrorists from a Greek hotel and transported to one of the regions of Syria.