<p><em>What if numbers really mattered?</em></p><p>Solar explosions known as The Pulse have rendered all electronics useless and sent Mankind back to a pre-digital age.</p><p>In St Petersburg Alexi an aging Russian professor of mathematics with a tragic past stumbles on two truths: the first the oppressive regime has been lying to the people and the second is that with sufficient energy reality can be split in two.</p><p>Alexi finds himself in a parallel ultra-modern St Petersburg with the possibility of combining his two separate worlds - and his shattered family.</p>