How did it happen that young idealists who dreamed of changing the world for the better turned into the most terrible dictators in the history of the planet Saraksh? How did it happen that those who wanted to stop the war and save their people became Unknown Fathers, always squabbling over money, power and influence? Why is politics in the Capital fused with crime, business with corruption, and survival with betrayal? This is the Country of the Fathers, about which the naive Maxim Kammerer knows nothing. But THIS hidden face of the Country of the Fathers is well known to the smart and merciless resident of Galactic Security, Rudolf Sikorsky, nicknamed the Wanderer, who has long lost his illusions...