A long binge destroys everything Ilya once dreamed of. The desire to fix mistakes, set his life back on track, and finally make peace with his wife forces him to take extreme measures—to leave far away from civilization, into the taiga for a seasonal winter hunt, where he may be alone with himself and defeat an illness called alcoholism. But meeting a gigantic man-eating tiger—possessing not only unimaginable strength but also a foreign mind—pulls Ilya into a deadly confrontation with an ancient spirit of the forest in flesh and blood.