About the book: 2011 / Apostle Manning firmly remembers everything that is perceived by his sight, smell and other senses. This unique ability made Manning's life hell, but it also made him a very good private detective. The trail of the young woman he was assigned to find ended in the town of Ruddick, in a religious community with the strange name "Frame of Reference", whose leader is obsessed with a delusional idea: the whole world is a stage, and we only play roles, unaware of the true essence of things. It soon turns out that provincial Ruddick is entangled in an ominous web of secrets. It seems that the intuition that the Apostle was so accustomed to trust did not deceive him: this time he took on a monstrously dangerous task…