Captivity is worse than death for a fighter! Humiliation is worse than wounds and torment! Where can I get the strength not to go crazy in this hell? Where can I find the courage to live on and hope to return to my people, knowing that they are waiting for a leader and a friend? Oleg, who three years ago found himself in a cruel, inhospitable world, only externally similar to Earth, together with his classmates, after one of the battles with ferocious aliens, the Ursa is captured by them. But those, contrary to custom, do not kill the boy, but take him to the mysterious City of Light, which no one has seen, but everyone has heard the most incredible legends. However, what he has to face in reality turns out to be much worse than the legends.