Emergency incidents in the asteroid belt occur frequently. The captain of the research vessel "Ulysses" Alexander Volkov had to recapture human lives from the indifferent emptiness more than once. But there has never been in the Outer Community that the price for participating in a rescue expedition was execution. Does this mean that captain Volkov intervened in a game where the stake is higher than life? What if the mighty enemy has pressed you to the shore of Styx? On the other side is death... Follow the hero, dear reader, perhaps he can find the third bank of Styx in a divided world. But Hades's cards lie, step with an eye...