Adventures of a young couple of astronauts in the ancient world. “...Four years have passed since that ill-fated day when, in one of the distant systems of the frontier, where my father had trading business, our ship ran into pirates, which forced us to get involved in battle. We were able to tear one enemy in half, but the second one got us: the first series of its torpedoes cracked the power shield, and the second hit the command room. Ilana’s mother died instantly, and my father was alive for another three and a half hours...” And so, after four years of cosmic ordeals in an unexplored sector of the galaxy, near a yellow dwarf, a planet suitable for life was discovered. And, as it turned out, it was already inhabited by people whose level of civilization corresponded to our ancient world...