Both people and gods live in the Apple Land. Sorcerers have long died out, and only the gods help people operate iron machines and illuminate their houses, protect them from sea monsters and do not allow them to die of hunger. Princess Nadezhda is the last living sorceress. From birth she was promised to the dead god, which is why she did not die in infancy. For sixteen years she is kept in a tower, protected from the world, and the world from her. The entire Apple Land considers her a living curse and a harbinger of the end of the world. And even though the girl is predicted to return memory, light and shadows to those who lost them, no one in the world expects good from her. So who is she? Having met face to face with the hatred and fear of people, with the meanness of the gods, who will he become? Curse or last hope?