About the book: 2022 / Thousands of years ago. Stone Age. In the foothills and tundra-steppe between modern France and Spain, the last surviving families of Neanderthals on Earth are living out their lives. They do not know that the time of existence of their species is running out, and soon they will remain in the memory of people only as heroes of ancient tales and myths. It is at this moment that the consciousness of our contemporary Andrei Kuznetsov enters the body of the young hunter Essu. Will he be able to change the inevitable??