After events on Свальбарде Лира Белаква gets in the new world, where she meets Уилла. Уиллу is twelve years, and he accomplished murder just. Together they appear in city of the abandoned children under the name Читагацце, where Ghosts, that take in the souls of adults, but are afraid of children, furrow on earth of street, and witches and snow-white angels divide sky inter se. Everybody goes on the way: Лира searches value of Dust, and Уилл - it disappearing father, but they find the article of mighty force - Wonderful knife able to cut any thing and even windows in other worlds.