Svetorada, not submitting to the will of the princes, leaves for the free world with her dear Strelok. Their path lies in the wild lands of the Meryans, where the great Volga flows, where strength and agility are at a premium, where the surrounding people named Svetorad Medova for her beauty and good disposition. How long will the stolen happiness last? Is love able to withstand the attacks of hunters of live goods and the arrows of the Pechenegs, to survive despite the machinations of shamans and the intrigues of the nobility? New troubles await the Smolensk princess. And also - new meetings, new feelings, new adventures and new love.