More than a hundred years have passed since Bender set off to the distant reaches of the stars and has never been in touch again. After a number of unsuccessful attempts to discover his traces, Bob decides to organize a large-scale expedition to find his comrade and find out his fate. But not all the clones of Bob's Universe approve of this plan. Beans have been developing, mutating and evolving for twenty generations. Many of them are not even remotely similar to the original intelligent spacecraft. In such a situation, conflicts cannot be avoided. However, the brewing civil war in Bob's Universe is not the main problem. After all, Bob, during his search for Bender, found something alien, possessing an unknown power that could become both salvation and a threat to all life in explored space.