Together with his comrades, chosen by providence to be his traveling companions, the wizard Belgarion pursues a man named Zandramas, who kidnapped his son. On long journeys they will have to visit the underground city of the Ulgov and meet forest dryads. In the Country of Snakes, Naise, the travelers will be joined by the demoted chief eunuch of the queen - snakes, a subtle connoisseur of potions and poisons, Sadi. Together with the king of the Murgs, Urgit, they will cross the war-torn Khtol - Murgos by land and sea, and then safely pass the forest inhabited by cannibal ghouls. The most incredible heroes will get into trouble, because the events take place in a world where the possible and the impossible coexist.