The distant future...Changing addresses, cities and professions, Thomas Brain tries to hide from the ubiquitous “hunters”. The hopes that he would be forgotten were dashed, and even his influential friend could no longer help him. Brain finds and loses allies, sells fish, plans a robbery and thwarts bandits. He knows how to confuse his tracks, but there are more and more enemies, and among them are representatives of other worlds, as well as a certain character from the past. Brain makes a breakthrough, putting everything on the line, but the result is impossible to predict...