Indirect continuation of the book “Hope”. Time passed, Shorren, one of the Hudson colonists, began a new life, however, fate was cruel to former convicts. Gury Khvat supports his protégé in everything, but he has his own problems - after the novel written by the famous writer Brilliantina Perlamutrova was published, Gury became terribly popular, and fans literally do not give him a pass. Among them is Karla Hokkenen from the planet Ka-Pess, who is obsessed with the desire to marry the hero of the book.