2066, Nigeria. Rosewater is a city built around the Wormwood Star. This nickname was given to a huge alien object, access to which is blocked by a biodome, impenetrable to human technology. His arrival changed the Earth: xenospores are now floating in the air, humanity is beginning to change, and the United States has become a closed zone, going into complete isolation. Scientists, military personnel and representatives of almost every country in the world, as well as desperate and terminally ill people, gather in Rosewater. Some of them want to look behind the insurmountable wall. Someone longs for healing, because Wormwood can cure any disease in the world and even revive the dead. Everyone is waiting for another life to finally answer people’s many questions. But she is silent. Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. He is the last person who was inside the biodome, and does not want to return there. But when something begins to kill agents like him, Kaaro is forced to face his own dark history and realize that contact with extraterrestrial intelligence can happen regardless of our desire. The book contains GMOs and foul language.