In an ordinary industrial Soviet town, notable only for presence of a radio-telescope, people start behaving strangely, in a robotic manner, while assuming geometry-inspired aliases and organizing into a new hierarchy. The phenomenon spreads via a device of alien origin, called “the mediator”, capable of implanting extraterrestrial minds into human bodies. The aliens are bound by limitations of the terrestrial technology, having to use the means at the disposal of humans to prepare the grounds for the full-scale invasion. With “the mediator" being unable to subdue minds of children, lunatics, geniuses, and rebels, a struggle over the fate of the town and the human civilization ensues.

Nastya

Sergei

Dasha

Zhenya

Zamyatina

Zamyatin

Kiselyov

Chernov

Rubchenko

Ganin

Yuri

Head of the Post Office

Man at a Funeral / An Ambulance Doctor on the Highway

Secretary

General
December 22, 1990

Nastya

Sergei

Dasha

Zhenya

Zamyatina

Zamyatin

Kiselyov

Chernov

Rubchenko

Ganin

Yuri

Head of the Post Office

Man at a Funeral / An Ambulance Doctor on the Highway

Secretary

General
