It all started with an ordinary ceramic cup, nothing particularly remarkable, except that it was from the legendary starship "Seeker", which once took refugees from the United States from Earth. In the time that has passed since this event, the mysterious colony of Margolia, which was founded by refugees, has become for everyone a kind of Atlantis - no one knows where it is, or what the fate of its inhabitants is. But the more hopeless the task that Alex Benedict, an antiques dealer, sets for himself, the stronger the passion and desire to get to the bottom of the truth, no matter how unsightly it may turn out to be... The novel is being published in Russian for the first time.