Wilhelm Elgendorf knows firsthand what it means to be different from everyone else. Unable to find a place for himself on his native space station, he devoted his life to science and fulfilled his cherished dream, becoming an Admirer - the creator and guardian of the Planet, called Earth. Wilhelm found the house he had been dreaming about. But his own Planet also rejected him. After hundreds of thousands of years of loneliness and pain, Wilhelm will once again have to decide who he is. Because the most precious thing is at stake - the existence of the Earth.