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A group of prehumans, perhaps one of the last, are walking to their summer camp and unexpectedly encounter their «heirs», a new type of people. Neanderthals are naïve, undeveloped, covered with wool and indirectly walking, but they have strong family ties, language and names. There are no abstract concepts or complex logical connections in their language and thinking. They know how to keep fire, but not to make it, they survive by gathering, their tools are the simplest pointed piece of stone and a stick.

The new race - "Homo sapiens" - impresses with its skills, terrifies with cruelty, spirit of guilt and depravity. It heralds the death of the humble tribe whose world it will inherit.

This masterful novel by William Golding is a perfect example of artistic prose with carefully crafted imagery, language and atmosphere, with a cross-cutting social and humanistic critique woven into the artistic form.