Quarantine planet. Two unsuccessful waves of colonization, which ended in complete collapse and a huge number of victims due to a fauna that was deadly to humans. The descendants of the surviving settlers are technologically thrown back into the Stone Age and isolated from nature in fortified villages... In such conditions, in a village lost among a dangerous forest, Valerie grows up - a little fragile girl with a unique gift for understanding the inhabitants of the forest. The world around her is cruel to Valerie and does not make concessions for her young age and lack of fists. In a deadly forest, you are either a predator or a prey, there is no third option. Since childhood, Valerie has chosen the path of a predator, learning to hunt and survive. But what should a little girl do if the legal limit of technology on a quarantine planet is an iron knife and a primitive spear, but at the same time slave traders, poachers and human hunters are armed with blasters and fly in starships?