There is no way out of the world in which he finds himself. And worse than that, memory is destroyed. You need to survive - and live on. To become the most useful tool in the hands of the mysterious ruler of an eerie empire in a parallel world. This is what Yusuf al-Andalusi, a Maghreb magician and specialist in “special assignments” did. Yusuf’s companions, whom he betrayed, also, oddly enough, survived - in the country , a hostile empire; moreover, they are not averse to meeting and getting even with their former “friend.” But not everything is so simple: thanks to a coincidence of circumstances, Russian journalist Vitaly Kamov and his American colleague James are doomed to wander in a wild and dangerous world. In the World of Four Moons, which once survived a nuclear war.