The planet Tverd is rich and favorable for human life, yet Earthlings despise the “dirty farmers” — the colonists, while the colonists hate the Earthlings who plunder their planet’s natural resources. This can end only in an explosion. Freedom! Freedom at any cost! How often have these words sounded in Earth’s history! Now they sound across the Galaxy. War and victory… and what comes next? Was the game worth the candle? No one learns from others’ mistakes, and people are doomed to repeat them forever. But perhaps therein lies their happiness?