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It is dangerous to gaze too long…

Planetoids in the system of the star Lévie. An accident forces the tug "Sagittarius" to take shelter on one of them. But the oxygen supplies will not last for everyone. Izmir Predú sacrifices himself so that the rest of the tug's crew can survive.

Pilgrimages make their way to his grave on the cold planetoid, which has no atmosphere. Do miraculous healings really happen there? One of those who have been healed founds a Cathedral on Izmir's grave. A cathedral is not built but planted; the Cathedral grows, matures, blossoms.

Something or someone is influencing the code of the Cathedral's livingcrystal and the trajectory of the planetoid swarm. Father Pierre Lavone, sent to the Izmiraids, is to rule on the question of Izmir Predú's sainthood and miracles and to uncover the secret of the Izmiraids – before the planetoids, together with the Cathedral, are lost for ever in the emptiness of interstellar space...

Tomasz Bagiński's Oscar-nominated film was based on a short story by Jacek Dukaj. But the well-known Oscar-nominated animation shows only the final scenes, so it is worth reading the book to try for yourself to unravel the secrets of the planetoids, the Cathedral and the livingcrystal.


"I raise my head and before my eyes is the cosmos. The Rorschach darkenings of the nebulae, the river of the Milky Way, the delicate flowers of star clusters, the silver sand of distant galaxies, quasars, the grating light staccato of pulsars… And the mind absorbs it, turns it over, organises it, names the forms. The first cosmonauts, returning from orbit, often spoke of a mystical experience. They were granted indirect communion with a high transcendence. The cosmos and the Cathedral act in the same way." (excerpt)