About the book: 2024 / It seems that he has long adapted to his not entirely human characteristics and learned to curb his nature. He survived the Brezhnev stagnation, the turbulent 90s, and the difficulties of the early 2000s. He comfortably settled into a single, single life. And then by chance Alice was brought into Igor’s life. How difficult it turns out to be to get a person whose fate you are no longer indifferent to. And how difficult it is to relearn how to communicate with someone who is interesting to you for real, and not just for show..