He has no name anymore—only a nickname: Nick Severyanin. He’s a grabber, a semi-legal prospector on the far-off planet Avalon, devastated by war. Searching for medicine for his terminally ill wife inevitably pulls him into secret operations of the military-space forces trying to break into the last uncracked mystery of the planet. A responsible mission—or just an attempt to find himself? No one knows what will happen to the brave man who dares cross the Death Line into that mysterious world where, until now, Earth people haven’t had access. After all, the truth about Avalon’s secrets was carefully hidden by Earth authorities from everyone.