Muzhchiny - vsegda deti. Lyubov' k komp'yuternym igram delaet dvukh druzey professional'nymi Setevymi igrokami v klasse kosmicheskikh Simulyatorov. No gde granitsa mezhdu virtual'nym mirom i mirom nastoyashchim? Mozhet byt', my tozhe Igrushki (programmy) v ch'ikh-to rukakh? S resheniem etoy zadachi i prishlos' stolknut'sya geroyam povesti. Tri druga, programmist Davyd Denisov, byvshiy moryak, starshina-sverkhsrochnik, Aleksandr Morskoy i khudozhnik professional Anatoliy Smyk, a takzhe mal'chik-podrostok Aleksey Kan po vole nezemnogo khakera-nedouchki peremeshchayutsya v virtual'nyy mir. Polozhenie oslozhnyaetsya eshche i tem, chto na spor, Davyd napisal virus-programmy Vinegret i Psikh. Deystvie etikh programm sozdaet trudnosti dlya sushchestvovaniya v virtual'nom mire ne tol'ko Zemlyanam, no i drugim, virtual'nym personazham povesti.