Strange events occur around Damogran, an outlying planet that is part of the Sicilian Protectorate. The investigation into the connections of the disgraced Admiral Santini with one of the mafia Families is unexpectedly intertwined with a completely ordinary, at first glance, criminal case of the murder of a psychologist doctor; the main character, arriving on Damogran for the first time, suddenly discovers that she has already been here, but has absolutely no memory of it; and the saboteur, who died while trying to blow up a warship in the local space of New Georgia, turns out to be alive and unharmed on the same Damogran - and, as it turns out, never left the planet for a day. Space fleet officer Marcello Conte, professional player Victoria Kovalevskaya, lawyer Igor Polyakov, diplomat Michel Thierry, schoolgirl Alena Gabrova - what could such different people have in common? Only one thing: they all became tools in the hands of unknown forces seeking to reshape reality at their own discretion...