Dzheyson Taverner odnazhdy utrom prosnulsya v gryaznom nomere otelya i stolknulsya s tem, chto agent, advokat i podruzhka - ego ne pomnyat. Nastoyashchiy shok dlya cheloveka, izvestnogo tridcati millionam telezriteley.
Bankovskie scheta bol'she ne sushchestvuyut, a vse dokumenty okazyvayutsya ne deystvitel'ny, a ne imet' pasport v policeyskom gosudarstve karaetsya prinuditel'noy otpravkoy v trudovoy lager'. Sluchaynaya znakomaya Keti izgotavlivaet emu poddel'nye dokumenty, no Dzheyson bystro vyyasnyaet, chto ona informator. Taverner okazyvaetsya vse glubzhe vovlechennym v krizisnuyu situaciyu s kazhdym chasom.
"Proleytes', slezy. . ." kniga, v kotoroy srazu raspoznaetsya roman Filipa Kindreda Dika. On sozdaet ubeditel'nuyu i pugayushchuyu gallyucinatornuyu kartinu real'nosti, v kotoroy policiya otslezhivaet vse vashi deystviya, znaet o vashih myslyah i obladaet polnoy vlast'yu nad vashey zhizn'yu.
