A quiet girl gets a job as a maid at a hotel, learning the art of cleaning rooms and the unwritten rules of conduct on the underground floor for service personnel.
In search of sensational material, the capital's journalist Tatyana Blok finds herself in the village. The reason for the shooting is large-scale: one morning in the village of Verkhnyye Brody (across the river from the Lower Ones), all the people disappeared. Twenty people at once. Money, documents, and all the livestock were left in place. Tatiana takes over the investigation. For her, this is a chance to prove that she was fired from television for nothing, and she is able to shoot high-quality investigative reports. But for this, Tatiana will have to learn how to live in the village, or rather, to survive in it.
Now you can settle scores with your boss, go on an extreme journey and even go on a date without fear of consequences, because all these are virtual adventures from the New Life company. But the players' bold and vivid adventures are suddenly interrupted by their revived fears. A group of anti-viruses is under suspicion. An employee of the company is also suspected of involvement in the group. An officer of the virtual police department begins the investigation. But each new step in the investigation makes him question the boundaries between the virtual and the real, take a fresh look at the situation and Novaya Zhizn itself, turning him from an investigator into a prime suspect.