The roads of two once closely allied peoples diverged after the Great War… In a shattered world, Best-Hard-City thrives—the capital of a techno civilization, whose very purpose is speed and progress for the sake of progress itself. But three hundred years later, an intelligent and curious thirteen-year-old boy, Robi, who lives deep in the woods with his grandfather, accidentally finds three representatives of an exiled strange people and realizes that he is destined to change the course of history. And perhaps to find his parents—long lost, vanished in Best-Hard-City.