About the book: year / The Civil War ended with the split of the country into North and South. Former opponents have been scattered into corners, but for how long? Russia and France entered into an alliance against England... There is a smell of war in the air again, but this time a global one. Big politics has not spared Alex - his excessive popularity among the Irish and his reputation as a dangerous socialist are alarming to the authorities of his new homeland - the Confederation. Forced to leave his daughter and his wife’s grave, Fokadan leaves for Europe. The monstrous pressure of responsibility disappears, and the loser decides to get an engineering education at one of the best technical universities of that time - Berlin. Ideas from the future require implementation, but technical literacy is lacking. Ahead of him lies the life of a successful playwright, engineer, inventor... Will it work out??