The terrible game continues. Oleg Panin with a team of fugitives from the Fortress goes towards his only Choice... A Choice that is destined to influence the fate of all inhabited worlds. He goes through worlds, losses, battles, political intrigues, through history and memory... How will he change along the way? Will he choose one of the options proposed by the clever “strategists” from the Directorate, or will he find his own path, which the military and politicians don’t even know about?

What is ultimately more important - “free happiness for everyone” or the opportunity to consciously choose your destiny? Love or duty? Law or justice? This is discussed in the final book of the dilogy, “Cradle in the Wind.”