“I am an executioner. This is a name, a nickname, a profession and a curse. In some mouths, this is a curse. I take no offence. This is their right." Once upon a time they were executioners. Judge, accuser and executor of the sentence in one person. They traveled from planet to planet, doing their job as an executioner. He is a writer, he finds a diary, an executioner's diary. What is stated in it sheds light on the events of a quarter of a century ago, the events that led to the current state of affairs in the human ecumene.