The actions of the game unfold in an alternative world where the collapse of the USSR did not happen, and instead the country, having passed through the era of stagnation, began a rapid development, which gave the people of the Union such a world as Soviet sci-fi writers dreamed of: space travel became an everyday occurrence, education and medicine became exemplary for the whole world, unique design solutions from the pages of futuristic novels began to be implemented in cities.
The protagonist, Sergei, is a Soviet student who has just entered the rocket and space engineering department of the country's main university. Sergei's parents went missing during a man-made disaster on the space station Zarya; he was just a child then, and any details of what happened remained a state secret.
Sergei has long since given up hope of finding out the whole truth, but on one of the first days of study, when the head of the freshman was busy with much more mundane concerns, he learns that on the basis of the university was a significant part of the work on the development of the station. Now the hero is determined to continue the investigation and get to the truth, not knowing whether it is out of pure curiosity, a sense of justice, longing for his relatives or some other a world where the USSR leads in science and space, Sergei, a student of rocket engineering, loses his parents in the “Zarya” station disaster. Years later, he discovers his university's link to the project and sets out to uncover the truth.
