In the distant future, the slave system will once again be established on Earth, and the lives of almost the entire population will take place in large metropolitan areas. The ruling class – the so-called Lords are hereditary aristocrats who own and control absolutely everything, including enslaved people, whose reproduction is tightly controlled. The girlfriend of the main character, a simple assembly line worker, does not want to give birth to a slave child, and the proletarian himself illegally shelters from euthanasia and feeds his own disabled father. Humanity is gradually degrading, but space technologies have not yet been lost...