Mark is always playing — with circumstances, people, death. But the longer the game lasts, the more difficult it is to figure out who outplayed whom — he is the world or the world is his.

Mark is a man to whom the concept of absolute good or evil is alien. He lives in shades of grey, preferring to laugh at the absurdity of life and go with the flow as if everything was calculated from the very beginning, even if he almost died five minutes ago. He's too charming to be hated, and too unpredictable to be completely trusted. "I'm not a hero, I'm not a villain. I'm just someone who wants everything to be... delicious." Lives by the principle: "If you can't strain yourself, don't strain yourself, just do it beautifully." Not a hero or a villain. He just knows how to negotiate with life, stay afloat, and get the most out of everything.