For five thousand years, earthlings have been locked by the Highest in their solar system with a Barrier. Human civilization, deprived of access to large space, was forced to develop towards improving its own mind and body. In an attempt to find “brothers in mind,” people created new races and animals, previously found only in fairy tales. They have mastered psi technologies that allow them to communicate and control their own body and other objects through thought. Huge megacities - the ugly creation of the twentieth centuries - have disappeared from the face of the planet. People have mastered the part of the solar system they left behind. Peace and harmony reign on Earth, but the memory of the lost stars revives the dream of overcoming the Barrier and finding the road to the Universe. Alvander, a young master of a relatively new science, fell ill with star fever from early childhood and since then he has devoted all his energy and talent to solving the problem. His ideas invariably captivate everyone who comes across them, but will the Barrier fall, and WHO will meet the people behind it?