"Otkloneniyam ot normy" net mesta v seleniyakh novykh puritan — potomkov nemnogikh, kto vyzhil v yadernoy katastrofe, postigshey chelovechestvo. Detenyshey zhivotnykh, obnaruzhivshikh maleyshiye priznaki mutatsii, unichtozhayut. S chelovecheskimi mladentsami obkhodyatsya "miloserdneye" — ikh prosto sterilizuyut i vyshvyrivayut v dikiye dzhungli, na milost' prochikh prozyabayushchikh tam odichavshikh mutantov. No vse li "otkloneniya" mogut raspoznat' besposhchadnyye sud'i-propovedniki i ikh fanat ...