Here you can become a corpse or become fabulously rich at any moment. Only the strong and ruthless survive here. Living in the world of the future means balancing on a tightrope stretched over an abyss. Centuries-old traditions easily coexist next to fantastic technologies that make it possible to easily change gender or implant devices in the brain that provide any knowledge and transform personality. Here, the fate of dwarf states - fragments of great powers - is decided by "godfathers", like the uncrowned ruler of Budain - Friedlander Bey. Marid learned life "at the bottom". Now he is the son and successor of the head of a powerful crime family, basking in deceptive luxury. He got to the top. But fate is fickle, and rivals stab you in the back. He and Bey are unfairly accused of murder and, doomed to death, are left to perish in the middle of a hot desert, hundreds of kilometers from home. And then again you have to fight for life, wealth and power.