Ordinary forest glades are a scattering of flowering herbs and berries, but witches are full of riddles. One of these is Maxim Zharov. From this moment begins his road to a new reality, where men have to fight, women support and store them, where white remains white and black remains black. Where Darkness must be confronted so that she does not overwhelm both worlds, so similar to each other and at the same time different. The novel of the grandmaster of Russian science fiction!