The victims are of both sexes, from different backgrounds, and of all ages, but invariably blond and blue-eyed. Moscow has been hit by a wave of brutal murders. There is no sign of any motive. They are found with their breastbones smashed in, their hearts crushed. Criminal gangs and unscrupulous financial operators run the show. Drugs, sex, and violence are the currency of daily life in Moscow. Blond and blue-eyed, with a strange shared attraction to a chunk of interstellar ice, they are looking for their brothers and sisters, precisely 23,000 of them. But in the midst of so much squalor one mysterious group is pursuing a long-meditated plan. How? With a crude hammer fashioned out of the cosmic ice. Lost among the common herd of humanity, they must be awakened and set free. The hearts of the chosen answer by uttering their true names. Humans, meat machines, die under its blows. 2008. For the first time they know the ecstasy of true life.