1468 year from the Resurrection of the Lord. Christopher Fairfax, a young Anglican priest, is sent on behalf of the bishop to a village lost in the wilderness of Wessex. Christopher has to bury an old priest who served in this parish for thirty years and died under mysterious circumstances. Forced to linger in the village due to bad weather, Fairfax gradually begins to understand that the late priest was a dangerous heretic who collected ancient relics: coins, shards of glass and pieces of plastic - artifacts of a vanished civilization. And Christopher has a question: was obsession with the past the reason for the death of the old priest? After all, his research casts doubt not only on the doctrine of the almighty Church, but also on the very history of mankind... For the first time in Russian!