Ordinary forest glades are a scattering of flowering herbs and berries, but witch glades are full of mysteries. Maxim Zharov falls into one of these. From this moment begins his road to a new reality, where men have to fight, women have to support and protect them, where white remains white and black remains black. Where Darkness must be resisted so that it does not overwhelm both worlds, so similar to each other and at the same time different. A novel by the grandmaster of Russian science fiction!