在现代莫斯科，心怀不满的前新闻系学生罗曼接受了一个神秘的邀请，加入了“精英”，发现自己被强行变成了吸血鬼。但不是你晚上的典型生物。由于一种名为舌头的寄生蠕虫，罗曼（现在称为拉玛）已经成为吸血鬼统治阶级的一部分，他们对人类实行“匿名独裁”，不是基于对血液的渴望，而是对金钱的渴望。随着各种导师以他们的精英品种的方式训练他，拉玛探索了他的新超自然能力，他开始与另一个新变成的吸血鬼赫拉建立试探性的关系。他渴望更多地了解这个令人陶醉的新世界，这也使他与他的导师密特拉发生了潜在的致命冲突，密特拉成为了他的克星。

In modern-day Moscow, disaffected former journalism student Roman follows a cryptic invitation to join “the elite” and finds himself forcibly transformed into a vampire. But not your typical creature of the night. Thanks to a parasitical worm known as the Tongue, Roman (now called Rama) has become part of a ruling class of vampires who exercise an “anonymous dictatorship” over humans based not on a thirst for blood but the hunger for money. As various instructors school him in the ways of their elite breed, and Rama explores his new supernatural abilities, he begins a tentative relationship with another newly turned vampire, Hera. His desire for more knowledge about this intoxicating new world also leads him into potentially deadly conflict with Mithra, his mentor who becomes his nemesis.

Un Moscovite de 19 ans est transformé en vampire, le propulsant dans un échelon élitiste et puissant de la société qui contrôle l’humanité depuis des temps immémoriaux...

Молодой москвич Рома Шторкин становится частью элитной расы вампиров — тайных правителей мира — и его жизнь переворачивается с ног на голову. Он получает имя Рама Второй, особняк в центре города и жизнь, о которой вчерашний грузчик не мог и мечтать. Но главное, он обретает недоступные людям знания и власть, с которыми ему предстоит научиться жить.