Continuation of the book “Trace of the Cro-Magnon Man”. There are many parallel realities. In one, the USSR stretched from ocean to ocean; in another, peoples with different beliefs in God fought to the death; in the third, a small tribe raises a hopeless rebellion against a mighty empire because its Messiah has already come; in the fourth, the Smerd Slavs go further and further into the forests from the tyranny of the Vikings. Who pushes history forward and why? Who upsets the balance between good and evil? Nikolai Turin and his friends will have to find out. Perhaps the answer lies at the very beginning of humanity’s journey—when the flame of reason faded on Earth? Or should we look for it in the first sprouts of techno-civilization, breaking through millennia-old layers of witchcraft and magic?