Purgatory

At the turn of the millennium, people believed in the most unbelievable natural disasters that could threaten all life on the planet. However, the catastrophe that destroyed human civilization turned out to be man-made. A deadly virus developed by a Nazi—one that escaped from military laboratories—killed most of humanity and turned the rest into bloodthirsty madmen. The world became a post-apocalyptic wasteland where only a few healthy people, hiding in underground shelters, barely survive…

The commander of an army intelligence unit, Captain Aleksey Kharitonov, receives an order from the command of his shelter: to retrieve the virologist Ivanov from a Kremlin bunker—someone with important information on an antiviral—and escort him through a half-ruined Moscow teeming with mutant cannibals to a secret command center in Ramenskі. The task proves far from simple: too many people need a man who may possess the recipe for an antiviral. And too many are willing to use him in a dirty game, setting others up and trying to chase their own selfish interests.

Captain Kharitonov begins to understand: the mission of his unit was doomed from the very start. Still, he isn’t used to surrendering to the mercy of circumstances and betrayal by others. The operation must be carried out to the end—no matter what…