Chelovechestvo okazalos na grani gibeli: prirodnye kataklizmy, smertelnye virusy, terakty, nasilie i zhestokost. Kazhetsya, spaseniya net. No otchayannyy inzheneridealist reshaetsya na bezumie. On konstruiruet korabl «Zvezdnaya babochka», chtoby pereletet na druguyu planetu i dat chelovechestvu novyy shans. Neskolko tysyach tschatelno otobrannyh dobrovoltsev risknuli poverit, chto mozhno vse nachat snachala i postroit spravedlivoe obschestvo. Smogut li oni vyzhit na gigantskom korable i dobratsya do zagadochnoy planety? Idealy - eto prekrasno, no, kuda by chelovek ni sbezhal, on beret s soboy svoyu suschnost.
