Planeta Zemlya prikhodit v sebya posle cheredy strashnykh katastrof. Vyzhivshie lyudi stalkivayutsya s bolshimi trudnostyami - vyzhzhennaya, zarazhyennaya radiatsiey zemlya, razrushennaya tsivilizatsiya, unichtozhennaya sreda obitaniya. Atmosfera ne prigodnaya dlya dykhaniya i otravlennaya khimikaliyami voda. Chelovechestvo degradiruet i vymiraet. V osnovnom po sobstvennoy vine - slishkom khalatno otnosilos ono k ekologii. No vot poyavlyaetsya novyy, razumnyy vid. On ne pokhozh na cheloveka - ne tolko vneshne, no i soznaniem, i obrazom mysli, i sistemoy tsennostey. I on prisposoblen k zhizni...