Britain is ruled by Equals, people endowed with a magical Gift from birth. A gift is a reliable shield, a powerful weapon, and a means of coercion. The commoners can only serve without complaint. Each of them is obliged to give ten years of “free labor” in special cities with the most difficult working conditions - this ensures a comfortable life for the aristocracy.

But this was the case until recently. Now a wave of resistance threatens to sweep away the centuries-old order. And the leader of the Rebellion is Midsummer Zelston, the niece of the treacherously murdered chancellor, who advocated the abolition of slave labor.

And only one of the Equals, young Siljun, a strange and unpredictable person who knows how to cross the threshold of death, seeks not to conquer the world again, but change it with the limitless power of your Gift.