It is Earth, but she does not quite look like our planet. It is the world with another laws of biology, astronomy, physics and history. It is the world of implicit triumph of spirit above a matter, reason above a body. And now he can be destroyed to founding. Иероним Бербелек once had reputation for a great war-lord. However, losing one battle only, he was broken and hardly lost own personality and will to live. But the now disgraced military leader again may need to the rulers of this world, in fact they ran into something, that does not yield to description and suppression. Meeting with the maturing children that he did not see many years, Иероним gets a chance to find itself former - and sets forth to Africa, country of gold cities and shapeless creatures, in the heart of darkness, where on will alien disgusting wonders and horrific beauty give birth to the people of consciousness.