It all started with the incoherent babble of a wild geologist... So, we are on Mars, in the near future. There is life on Mars, but what kind of life... A mixture of the dark Middle Ages and the Wild West! Lack of air, lack of energy, lack of humanity. Death in the red desert is an everyday event, the Oasis bunker is a joyful haven. Mysterious anomalies prevent the colonization of Mars from being completed, and then there is a group of tourists from Earth - thrill-seekers who decided to conquer the highest mountain in the solar system - Olympus Volcano! Not an easy task for guides, especially since these tourists, and even the group guide herself, the mysterious and beautiful girl Irina, behave very suspiciously! All this looks like a conspiracy, but against whom? Or maybe all this is a figment of a fevered imagination? This book has a lively, dynamic and unpredictable plot: a detective story is intertwined with romance and humor, battle scenes with mystical events, memories and human history with a long-ago future...