U dalekii halaktytsi, de politychni soi͡uzy skripliuiut’sia shliubamy, prynts Kiiem — kharyzmatychnyi, ale neperedbachuvanyi chlen imperators’koi rodyny — zmushenyi uklasty shliub iz Dzhainanom, vdivtsem i predstavnykom vasal’noi planety Tea. Tseĭ soi͡uz maie zmitsnyty imperiiu Iskat pered zovnishnimy zahrozamy.

Protе koly z’i͡asovuiet’sia, shcho smert’ poperedn’oho cholovika Dzhainana bula ne neshchasnym vypadkom, a chastynoiu zmovy, Kiiem i Dzhainan opyniuiut’sia v tsentri politychnykh intryh, shcho zahrozhuiut’ stabil’nosti imperii. Vodnochas mizh nymy roste nizhne pochuttia, yake zmushuie obokh perehliadnuty svoï ui͡avlennia pro doviru, obov’iazok i kokhannia.

Tse zakhoplyva naukovo-fantastychna romantyka, shcho poiednuie politychni intryhy, mizhzoriani zmovy ta hlyboko emotsiini stosunky dvokh cholovikiv. Vony vchatsia liubyty ĭ doviriaty odyn odnomu u sviti, de kozhne rishennia maie naslidky halaktychnoho masshtabu.