Having lost everything to the cruelty of newly made rulers, he set out on a campaign with naive faith that a handful of heroes could crush the forces of evil. But reality turned out not to resemble films—and it was far more frightening than anything he had imagined. Now the avenger is against all dangers of the Road, and the very first among them is people.
A wanderer of the cursed world. He will find a civilization—but it won’t please him. Before his eyes is a foggy, grim St. Petersburg torn apart by conflict among magnates. And in his memory is a wild radioactive Ural, where he first realized that evil has many faces and that the world is far from black-and-white as it seemed to him.
These two roads must be walked to the end if the wanderer is to answer the question: can you be light for someone in this impenetrable darkness?