Each of us sincerely believes that it is hard to surprise them. Yet the world is far more complex and multifaceted than we can imagine. The book's protagonist learned this the hard way. Finding himself far from home — many millions of light-years away — he discovered that humans do not live on Earth alone. Will he survive? Will he be able to find his place in a new society? A society that is at once both like and unlike the one on Earth. In any case, the former sergeant of the Russian armed forces will have to work hard to prove a simple truth to the locals: Earthlings are capable of a great deal.