About the book: 2020 / The end of the 21st century. Left without a partner, Captain Kuznetsov serves on the border ring twenty light years from home, controlling the traffic of the nearest wormhole. Close friends are waiting for him on Earth, and there is a threat in space, information about which the command is hiding. A starship from a neighboring civilization requests an emergency landing on a border outpost planet. The alien on board inspires inexplicable trust. Contains obscene language.