Strange things are happening in the Sayan taiga: a series of brutal murders, disappearances; the bears are behaving inexplicably. Reality turns out to be more incredible than the wildest guesses…
The book is dedicated to the many Russians who spend half their lives or more without seeing a human face except in a mirror or in the stream of water. For whom the silence of the taiga, hawks drifting in the sky, the whirl of animal trails, the icy crust that forms overnight on the water in a pail become their world. And who, in all circumstances of life in the forests, remain modern people and, moreover, good people.