The heroine of Olga Ptitseva’s new anti-utopian novel lives in a country where they have declared eternal winter. Two hundred days a year snow falls, food is issued by ration cards, and those who don’t agree are sent to a freezer. Nuta can’t leave because, thanks to her biological training, the Party of Cold now needs her: it’s urgent to develop selective varieties of frost-resistant plants. Meanwhile, strange things begin to happen in the city. Yellow daffodils bloom right in the drifts. Local authorities are sure that it’s the opposition that’s to blame—they’re the ones who want to destabilize the situation.