Gore Day, a skilled mime from the powerful Conglomerate of Worlds, is sentenced to death for a serious crime - sent to the Point of No Return. To planet Earth. Our planet is akin to a cosmic leper colony. Our life is an insignificant period for any inhabitant of the Conglomerate, and exile to Earth is only a deferred death sentence. The doomed person himself becomes a “short-lived” - an earthling. Therefore, for “humane” purposes, the doomed person’s memories are erased. But it turned out that Gore’s memory was returning. And he finds himself at the bottom of existence - after all, in all worlds, naughty children are scared of the Earth. Horus is trying to get out of the Earth, but those in whose hands are power and authority are already following the trail...