Torrential rain. Two people take cover under a canopy: he and she. True, romance has nothing to do with it. It is not raining on Earth, and they are not a couple of lovers. A few months ago, hundreds of earthlings left Earth to take part in an expedition launched by unknown forces to a planet called briefly and in military terms - Bridgehead. From the very beginning, earthlings were divided and were forced to enter into confrontation with each other. It took the leader of the earthlings, Georgy Reshetnikov, a lot of effort to stop the fratricidal war. But the problems of the earthlings on the Bridgehead were far from over. She was called the Chimera. She lived among the colonists, who considered her an ordinary earthly girl. Who the Chimera really was was known only to George. And only he knew that the fate of the colony depended on a conversation with her...