Collected from former convicts, the soldiers of the Star Legion had the opportunity to become the first fighters in the space war, the vanguard of the battle against other races threatening humanity. They won a victory and returned home, where the graves of their loved ones, a changed, alien Earth and their own madness, nurtured during the years of war, awaited them. But having set foot on their home planet, they could not even imagine how it would repay their children for their faithful service...