ILLEGAL USE OF NARCOTIC DRUGS, PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, AND THEIR ANALOGUES CAUSES HEALTH DAMAGE, THEIR ILLEGAL TRAFFICKING IS PROHIBITED AND ENTAILS RESPONSIBILITY PROVIDED BY LAW. Tom Hazard is an unremarkable-looking man of forty. But he has a secret – he was born in 1581. Tom is not immortal, he simply ages about fifteen times slower than other people. Together with other ageless ones, he belongs to the secret Society "Albatross." The task of the Albatrosses is to protect their secret, as ordinary people are not ready to calmly accept them. They have been persecuted at all times – in the Middle Ages they were burned, and nowadays they are simply locked up in a madhouse. The main rule of the Albatrosses is never to fall in love. Love makes them unhappy and weak, as they are doomed to see the aging and death of their loved ones and even children. Every eight years Tom changes his residence – and identity. Every eight years he renounces his past. This time he settled in London and took a job as a history teacher at a school. Once he met his only love in this city. And ironically, it seems he will break the main rule of the Albatrosses again.