Diego Peral is a humble fencing teacher. The son of a famous playwright, in the past - a soldier, Don Diego is indifferent to the cosmic temptations of the ecumene. It would seem that his fate is a rapier and a dagger, attacks and defenses. But the life of the maestro takes a sharp turn, becoming like the plays of Peral Sr.: love, passion, the young daughter of the grandee of Escalona, and now the native planet is left behind.The maestro does not know that, like a fly, he landed in the center webs of interracial intrigue. That the method of escape chosen by him, the pundits of the Oikoumene consider it impossible. That not all problems are solved with a glorious blow of the blade. He only believes that the demons forced him to pay for love with the salvation of his soul. Is Diego Peral so wrong, as it seems to the civilized Ocumene?The new novel by G.L.