The earthlings who colonized the planet Roland did not find intelligent life forms on a land area suitable for life. Over the hundred-plus years of their stay on Roland, people, striving to live next to those who are closer to them in origin or way of thinking, have already managed to form regional accents. Some remained in the city of a million, others turned into long-distance settlers and moved away from civilization, completely focusing on agriculture. Everything was fine on the planet, but children disappeared too often... A baby disappears from a camp surrounded by detectors and alarm systems, guarded by guard mastiffs, where no one could penetrate unnoticed. The mother of a missing child hires a detective, clinging to the last hope of finding at least the baby's remains. But the detective turned out to be a difficult one, a migratory bird from another planet, devoid of prejudices towards “fairy tales from the outskirts of civilization”...