...Is there a limit beyond which the Great Balance between Light and Darkness is irreversibly violated? Yes! That’s how this world is. A world in which the usual blood feud of the servants of Good against the servants of Evil gradually develops into a great and desperate war. In a war where werewolves-zorzas and keepers of secret knowledge - druids fight until victory - or death. In a war, the outcome of which, it seems, will be decided not by a magician or a warrior, but by the cheerful tramp Jan Korostel... And then the captive druids, brought to a distant island by a detachment of Zorz, begin a desperate, almost hopeless rebellion... And then the murdered servant Sveta and the freedman from the Afterdeath swear not to let the forces of Darkness pass through the Great River between the world of the living and the world of the dead. The war continues...