The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis led to the nuclear exchange between major superpowers. As a result, instead of further development of technology, humankind invested all of its resources in genetic engineering. Leadership in today’s belongs to those, whose genes have been improved. Those, whose genes for some reason could not be modified, have become inferior. The protagonist is a talented constructor and inventor Phill. The genetic modifications didn’t work on him and ever since his childhood, he’s been trying to compensate with various technological concoctions. He uncovers is a huge conspiracy against the “non-genetics” and directs his abilities to protect those who cannot protect themselves.