Young pilot Angus Parvis arrives on Titan and learns that Commander Pirx, under whom he served for some time, has disappeared. He went to the Grail station and was never seen again. The pilot sets out in search of him and also becomes a prisoner of a forest made of frozen liquid gas. But before the cold penetrated inside, Parvis managed to step into the vitrifier chamber…
Decades later, a star expedition passing by Titan rescued people from the permafrost and extracted them from the vitrification “bells.” Some of them were hopelessly dead, but there was a chance to bring one of the two survivors back to life. But which one? The “foundling” became an involuntary participant in the expedition. His memory had been partially damaged, and he could not remember who he was…
And the moment of meeting a new civilization was approaching, and the chain of “surprises” was only beginning…