One night on the railway line Saint Petersburg—Moscow, a strange train crashes: it consists of a locomotive and just a single passenger carriage, and its wheels are made of an alloy of precious metals. A train that, in that place and at that time, simply could not exist according to all official documents.
Only one person survives—a thirty-two-year-old albino who remembers nothing and knows nothing about himself, not even his name, and yet feels no discomfort about that.
Meanwhile, in Chukotka, nineteen-year-old Yagerdyzhka begins to see the spirits of the dead Eskimos…