In a closed world, whose rulers resist with all their might the imposed integration with the Council of Worlds, war is brewing. The eternal opponents of the Cardian Empire and the Beloyarsk kingdom share the disputed lands. At this alarming time, a Beloyarsk aristocrat and an imperial noblewoman meet on the border of the two warring states. Do they have a right to love? And is there any hope that the forbidden feeling will not ruin both?