1826, St. Petersburg. After the suppression of speeches on the Senate Square, the investigative commission begins searching for the Decembrists. Some of them are caught by the authorities because of informers. Suddenly, a series of brutal murders takes place in St. Petersburg: the victims are those who denounced the Decembrists. A piece of paper with lines from a poem by the young poet Alexander Pushkin invariably remains near the bodies of the dead. A Moscow detective and a nobleman released from arrest, Alexander Boshnyak, are taking over the investigation of the case.
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.
Set in 1965 in the midst of the Cold War, Totems follows a French scientist, Francis Mareuil, as he begins working as a spy. While working for the French Secret Service and the CIA, Mareuil meets Lyudmila Goloubeva, a pianist forced to work for the KGB. A romance blossoms between them but neither can be sure what is an expression of their true feelings, and what is the fruit of political shenanigans…