Eta kniga nachinaetsya kak avantyurnyy roman, gde geroy, v dukhe gogolevskikh pokhozhdeniy Chichikova pytaetsya obzavestis' nekim dushevnym kapital'tsem dlya togo, chtoby proslyt' Velikim Posvyashchennym, obresti slavu i dobit'sya vzaimnosti vnuchki znamenitogo rossiyskogo pisatelya. Dlya etoy tseli geroy puteshestvuet, poseshchaya sil'nykh mira sego, v nadezhde poluchit' u nikh priznanie i rekomendatsii v sootvetstvuyushchie krugi. S kazhdym vizavi u geroya proiskhodyat nasyshchennye besedy, v khode kotorykh on postepenno preobrazhaetsya, poznavaya to, o chem on pervonachal'no ne podozreval, kak i bol'shinstvo lyudey - kazhdyy vizavi otkryvaet geroyu skrytye mekhanizmy, kotorymi vlast' priderzhashchie upravlyayut soznaniem lyudey. Emu otkryvaetsya Sistema, vo vsey ee tsinichnoy, besposhchadnoy i kovarnoy mnogomernosti. Postepenno menyayutsya tseli i tsennosti geroya. On popadaet v krug ochen' vysokopostavlennykh i mediynykh personazhey, kotorye predstayut emu s tekh storon, kotorye skryty ot shirokoy obshchestvennosti. Osvobozhdenie ot mnogikh okov Sistemy stanovitsya vozmozhnym, no v odinochku - eto prakticheski beznadezhno... Sud'ba brosaet glavnomu geroyu vyzov. Kak on otvetit na nego?