Year 2013. Ukraine. Navy officer Maxim Fadeev comes from St. Petersburg to the Crimea, after receiving a telegram about the death of his grandfather.

A small town in Siberia is quarantined for several months. People are dying of a mysterious illness, the source of which lies hidden in the water....

A boy from a remote Ural village, who grew up without a father in a large family, managed not only to survive the hardships of a wartime childhood...