Emergencies in the asteroid belt happen frequently. The captain of the research vessel "Ulysses" Alexander Volkov had more than once had to win back human lives from the indifferent emptiness. But it has never happened before in the Outer Community that the price for participating in a rescue expedition was execution. Does this mean that Captain Volkov intervened in a game where the stakes are higher than life? What to do if a powerful enemy presses you to the shore of the Styx? On the other bank is death... Follow the hero, dear reader, perhaps he will be able to find the third bank of the Styx in a divided world. But the cards of Hades lie, go with caution...