A safe, dust-free job for a military retiree with a mutilated leg is to guard a warehouse. But the surprises began from the first day - the warehouse is on another planet, no one knows what exactly is stored here, but curious non-humans with weapons are crawling out of the surrounding desert. Well, comrades in private military service can be not only strange, but also dangerous. So Ivan Serov had to remember that during urgent and extra-urgent service he not only stood guard and swept the parade ground...