Professional mercenary Leonid Bulatov is left without a livelihood. Former employers don't want a veteran with old wounds. It is not surprising that Leonid agrees to the offer of a strange guy named Cass. A highly paid job in your specialty and a free ticket to... a spaceship. It turns out that Cass needed a real flesh-and-blood mercenary who could take command of a unit of combat androids. But in reality everything turns out to be much more complicated...