Stepan Berezovsky

For an ordinary Yakut guy Kolya Anufriev life seems to be simple and clear until he meets Svetka. Because of her he wants to become better and change his life, but as a result, everything changes...

Due to a violent misunderstanding a young member of a criminal syndicate is torn away from familiar grounds of urban underworld and thrown into unwelcoming wilderness of Siberian taiga. Vast and virtually uninhabited, it provides little distinction between past and present, reality and myth. He must face the ghosts of the past and shadows of the present, and rediscover himself and his destiny, however shattering and unwanted it may be.

There is no escape from the war... 1942. While all the forces of the country are thrown into the fight against fascist Germany, in the southern part of Yakutia there are gangs robbing gold mines. The largest of them is the elusive and brutal Popov gang, which collects stolen gold to organize a military coup in the Far East. In their footsteps, a small detachment of the NKVD under the leadership of Senior Lieutenant Karasev is sent through the snow-covered endless taiga.

During one night in the coldest city on the planet, a man is forced to cross the boundaries of the imaginable in order to save his wife, kidnapped by a mysterious stranger. When a stranger kidnaps a wife, her husband has no choice but to comply with the demands of the kidnapper. The price for the life of a spouse is six people killed before dawn. But who are these six? Do they deserve a harsh sentence? And what boundaries of his conscience is a man willing to cross for the love of his life? In the coldest city in the world, the nights seem endless in winter and you can't wait for the sunrise.