The catastrophe divided people's lives into “before” and “after” the Wave. And the understanding came - the end of the world is not as terrible as what will happen next. Continents have changed their appearance, and survivors are charting new shores. On the basis of the surviving villages, enclaves of survivors of the planetary catastrophe are created. Sergei Nikolaevich, his relatives, friends and like-minded people are creating their own enclave on one of the islands of the new archipelago - Sugar Island. And peace is only a dream... caring for people, reviving crafts and technologies, conquering the sea and searching for valuable resources of a past civilization, and all this without ever letting go of the weapon for a moment. Through work and bloody sweat, the joy of success and the grief of loss, there is still much to go through in order to take one’s place in the New World, on which the future of the islanders and the future of children born “after” depends.