Imagine a civilization in which a man cannot harm a woman or child. In which clans wage wars according to strict rules, and those who violate them are jointly slaughtered to the last man. A world where men fight, but women rule. A world in which heterosexual love is a perversion. From this world's perspective, the only way to protect women and children from violence is to send men far from home. But people are different in that their reproductive apparatus functions constantly, and the body requires periodic discharge. What if men are separated from women? The answer is clear. Women are at the hearth. Men guard him with a ring of swords along the perimeter of their domain. Only same-sex love is decent, while heterosexual love is a perversion, permissible only for animals, and even for people during procreation. Human civilization, in its expansion, encounters the civilization of Aliens, living according to the rules described above. Two worlds collide, each of which considers the other obscene. The question is - will they meet in the seemingly inevitable fight? Indeed, in fact, for Aliens, the murder of a woman is not an absolute taboo - it is enough just to declare the enemy a non-human, an animal, and then exterminate him, just as garden pests are exterminated. But is another solution possible? And what should a person do, a man who is captured and becomes the lover of an enemy general?