Maxim Kammerer, a boy from an ordinary life, ended up on Saraksh and saw very little—and understood even less. The Stranger saw more and understood more, but also not everything. And around them was a whole planet: war, a coup, a crisis, an unknown cataclysm… This book invites you to look at the planet lost in a far-far galaxy not through the eyes of aliens, but through the eyes of its native inhabitants—boys from a mining settlement.
A small border town, Beshtau. Summer, holidays… Just then the distant Hontian War has ended—somehow, nobody knows how—and now the Pandeian border is uneasy. For safety, the children are taken out of the town to a summer camp. And here, inexplicably, the catastrophe catches them: all adults either lose their will or go mad. Children and teenagers have to fight for survival in a world that suddenly becomes deadly…