The young sorcerer Mark Keltz fell in love with his neighbor, a sweet girl. But fate confronts him with terrifying obstacles on the path to simple human happiness. Suddenly he has responsibilities for the lives of other people. And in amazing trials, the hero suddenly realizes that the world around him is not simple and understandable as it seemed before. Neither his parents, nor his friends, nor his mortal enemy, nor himself were at all who he thought they were. And only she, his beloved, remains the anchor that keeps him afloat in the ocean of monstrous events hidden for centuries by some mysterious functionaries. A blatant pile of lies, accumulated and growing for centuries, will someday be revealed to awaken in Mark the first grain of anger, desire for retribution and a just need to fix everything. But will he cope if, for the happy future of billions of earthlings, he must send his beloved to death?