The Colonial Union... disappeared. Thirty years ago, the Blackout struck, turning a complex system of human worlds into islands, separated from each other by abysses of distances. But the worlds themselves have not become smaller - there are still thousands of them, and on each there is something mysterious from the inheritance of the lost races - the Forerunners. The colony of Terra Nova, a water world that once experienced an environmental disaster, was no exception. True, he could not boast of any special secrets - of all the mysteries, only whispering whales were of at least some interest. And it just so happened that they became the root cause of the misadventures of Ante Svensson, an exchange graduate student from New Oymyakon. However, he himself had many “skeletons in his closet”, and our hero is not deprived of vices - curiosity alone is worth it! The devil pulled him to get involved in a scientific... adventure, there’s no other way to put it. And then, as usual, everything started spinning: alcoholism, sea life, kidnapping, fights... And only the wise Courier, a former famous Gunsmith, knows that in fact all this is just an entourage. Because the main thing is the decisions that we make at this or that stage of life. Or not us?..