The history of the beginning and flourishing of domestic computer technology and cybernetics in the 1950s-1960s. About a utopia that almost came true. Automation and cybernetization were even written into the Third Program of the CPSU in 1961. It was called the "Program for Building Communism", and it promised that in 20 years a communist society would be built in the USSR, free from exploitation, from want, from class contradictions, giving every person every opportunity for creative self-realization, based on the principle "from each according to abilities, to each according to his needs. The creators of this utopia, the carriers of a reasonable creative principle were scientists and engineers-cybernetics.

The film tells about the most high-profile crimes that have been committed in Russia in recent years, and in the circumstances of which there are still dark spots. Among the stories is the case of the Angarsk maniac, the Pereverzev family that burned down in a fire, and a provincial postal worker who once stole millions of rubles from the cash register and, together with her lover, went to burn them to the sea.

For us, Beslan ended 10 years ago, for them it has just begun. On September 1, 2004, the four protagonists of the film lost everything, and the world learned about the existence of the North Ossetian city of Beslan. In a few months, they will create a "Mothers of Beslan" committee to fight for an honest investigation into the terrorist attack at school No. 1.