An ice age is approaching the Earth. Soon, global cooling will change the climate of the once comfortable, warm planet irreversibly and forever. The Institute of Experimental Genetics finds a solution - to create a new type of person, capable of withstanding the cold. Alena is the carrier of a new gene complex. Adults have many plans for her life: her mother dreams of a successful military career for her daughter, one of the professors at the Institute dreams of continuing the experiment, and the strange young man Tim with paranormal abilities simply loves her for who she is... Interstellar transport leaves the Earth for within the framework of the “Galactic Ark” project - to give Humanity a chance to survive in one of the alien worlds, if it suddenly fails in ours. Tim and Alena find themselves on one of these ships, this is the only chance for them to maintain their happiness. But space is not honey or sugar, and who said that in the Galaxy people are the only carriers of intelligence? The first contacts bring the first problems - mutual misunderstanding, first of all. Not only between a human and an alien, but also between close people.