Amazing discovery! One pill replaces 9 hours of sleep. The future belongs to those who do not need to sleep. The future belongs to Vigil.
Martha becomes one of the first Vigils. He gets to be in the company of people who have all the time in the world. It handles a lot of activities for which there was no time before. On one visit to the public library, he meets Vincent, a charming gentleman who vehemently refuses to give up sleep. How can the relationship between the Sleeper and the Awake turn out?
Samuel is a talented artist. To be more active, he helps himself by consuming Lilly, which have the strength of cocaine but without its negative side effects. Once he learns of the existence of R24, he does not hesitate. This gives him more time to create, but the absence of dreams begins to affect his work. Samuel is gradually changing...
Claudia is a selfless person by nature and can't just let things go. Does no one really see what consuming R24 causes? She hates him and is doing her best to let the whole world know the truth. Experienced and ambitious businessman Peter decides to help Roden Medical24 and becomes its director. He cares about the business side of things and hopes that the R24 product and the company will one day help the whole world. But the naive activist who has hacked their system is doing everything she can to make sure Peter fails...
Like Roden, Ondrey was fascinated by the possibility of replacing sleep with a preparation. When they finally managed to find the right composition, Ondrey began to hesitate. What if it doesn't just have positive impacts? Roden has other ideas and his stubbornness forces Ondrey to leave. He himself is secretly working in seclusion to put the man back to sleep...
Six stories, six narrators, six different points of view.
They all intertwine and give the reader the opportunity to lean on different sides. Like much science fiction, this story subtly raises questions about the meaning of life and the very nature of humanity, but each reader must answer them for themselves.