Taiga Gang

1953. Following an amnesty, a group of prisoners leaves a labor camp in Novosibirsk Oblast. Once free, the repeat offenders almost immediately go back to their old ways: they vandalize a rural shop and attack women. The task of stopping the gang is assigned to the operations group of Captain Gennady Lukyanov. His team includes Senior Lieutenant Alla Barysheva, who has recently become a widow: her husband, a police officer, died under mysterious circumstances.

During a chase through the taiga, Barysheva stumbles upon a clue that makes her realize that her husband’s death might not have been an accident. And if it was murder, the mastermind won’t leave her alive…

From city backstreets—to archived files; from the victims’ apartments—to ambush paths in the forest. The everyday work of Soviet investigators becomes far more dangerous after the amnesty that set thousands of people free—people for whom robbery and death are all they know…