In a galaxy beyond the Milky Way, on a planet called Thoro, a war that he cannot understand tears apart the contented life of Hair, the Elon servant of a Mendor family. When circumstances separate him from Lucy, his friend and fellow servant, and Mara, the only surviving member of his family, Hair embarks upon a journey to find his friends in a place called the Valley of Light, where all the different races on Thoro live happily side by side. Leaving behind the only home he has ever known, Hair`s perilous journey leads him into many dangerous situations and shows him just how limited and narrow his life as a servant really was. But such knowledge, as Hair finds, doesn`t come without a price, and he is left bewildered and scared when he discovers the shocking truth about society on Thoro.
