About the book: year / A young girl, the daughter of a rural scientist and an aristocrat, runs from home to the capital to find her twin brother. Demian disappeared several years ago without saying a word. Everyone had long thought he was dead, but Abigail received a letter from him that she could not ignore. The path to Kora, the capital of the empire, seems simple only in appearance. The magnificent Victoria train, on which the girl will travel, is fraught with many dangers. And how could it be otherwise, if the train is a whole city, divided into classes and estates? At this time, in the capital, shrouded in smog, a poor guy named Day Ridd deciphers a diary that should lead him to an incredible invention, the task of which is to save the world from certain death. The clock mechanism has already started, and the hands are measuring the remaining minutes. To solve all the secrets and riddles encountered along the way, the heroes will have to unite. And confront an entire corporation of industrialists who want to hide the terrible truth at any cost.