If over the centuries of its development, humanity has colonized a hundred planets, but still has not met someone else's civilization, this does not mean at all that it does not exist. The small crew of the nameless cargo harbor did not think about the eternal. Pilot Yuri Soroka, an earthling, was simply mastered at a new duty station. Navigator Lunaria O-Ori, a native of the planet Looki, was just happy to return to her favorite job and wanted to get to know her new partner better. A chance meeting will help them fully realize their desires and at the same time try on the role of contactees, having experienced the hospitality of brothers in mind. Then answer an important question: do people need such "relatives" at all?