For half a century, the elderly scientist and professor Igor Vladimirovich Vishev has championed a fundamentally new perspective on humanity's most daring dream – achieving practical immortality. Blinded in his youth, he lives with and is cared for selflessly by a thin old woman. This is not his wife, but simply his faithful assistant of many years, Vera. Igor Vladimirovich is certain that the physical death of the body is not the end. He hopes for a bright future after his own death.