People among the trees

71-year-old doctor Abraham Norton Perin, a world-famous scientist, a world-famous laureate of the Nobel Prize, the court says to imprisonment on charges of raping a minor. Newspapers are full of loud headlines. Many do not believe in the guilt of the famous doctor. The reader plunges into the memories of Perin. Childhood, student years, scientific experiments and the first discoveries. And then - life among the natives on one of the most distant and mysterious Micronesian islands. The tribe that Perina studies has a secret of longevity, and possibly eternal life. Fantastic horizons are revealed to humanity, however, they are far from cloudless, because in the game with such bets, pharmacological companies will go to everything literally. And is our civilization ready for such a gift?