After a nuclear war between Russia and the United States, nothing remained on Earth that even remotely resembled the old times. The number of localized settlements of those who survived shrank with every day. Fate brought a small Timothy together with the scientist Harry Molibert. Both of them had lost their families, which drew them closer.
When they find themselves in Iceland among a refugee camp, they try to survive in the conditions of nuclear winter.
The author offers his own version of solving the paradox of the great mathematician Enrico Fermi: “Why did the aliens never contact us?”