It is October of Year 8 of the Revolution. The neighbourhood assembly and scientific-agricultural community Moscow Recycling Hounds and their sociologist friend from Novosibirsk are just enjoying a holiday in Illyria to discuss the state of the revolution with the French comrades and to inform comrade Anton – who is doing a university entry project on them – on their projects, when a top Russian reactionary, Nikolai Morbidov, starts another coup attempt at home. With the help of newly recruited patriotic cells, he plans biochemical terrorism on an up to now unknown scale. Our comrades make a desperate attempt to use revolutionary communications, the venues of the revolution, and their scientific knowledge to help thwart this nefarious design from far away…