In a closed world, whose rulers resist with all their might the imposed integration with the Council of Worlds, war is brewing. Eternal opponents, the Cardian Empire and the Beloyarsk Kingdom, divide disputed lands. In this alarming time, a Beloyarsk aristocrat and an imperial noblewoman meet on the border of two warring states. Do they have the right to love? And is there any hope that the forbidden feeling will not destroy both?