About the book: 2011 / After the Great Contraction, a new era has come. The Living One was born: humanity turned into a single, constantly reproducing organism. “The number of the Living One is unchanged,” as it is said in the Book of Life. The Living One is equal to three billion - no more, no less. The living one is happy. The living is all-good. The living one is immortal... You are also immortal. The living one has created a new world for you. In this world, it doesn’t matter who your biological ancestor is - what matters is who you were in a past life, before the Pause. In this world there are no countries, cities and borders, religions and nations, wars and terror. This is a wonderful, stable world in which you always have a connection to Socio. The global network is in your brain - it makes you part of the whole... But then one day an extra one appears in this world. A baby with no past, increasing its numbers by one. Who is he? Your new friend in Socio - or the enemy who will destroy the Living?