Space is beautiful, attractive and deadly. Pilot Nikolai Pavlov drove cargo flights around the solar system, but dreamed of being among the first to go to distant stars. Removed from his favorite job for disobeying official instructions, capable of exchanging his career for saving people, prickly, always knowing everything better than others, Pavlov did not find the love of his superiors. But a man capable of surviving a catastrophe, and even saving other people, attracted the attention of crazy people who decided to go on the first flight to an alien star in the fragile shell of a research ship. The pilot's dream is ready to come true. There is only one “but”: this journey is a one-way ticket...