The borderlands are several towns torn from our world into a realm of eternal cold—and the Fort is the very heart of those snowbound lands. Anyone can accidentally cross the invisible boundary and fall into these not-so-friendly places, but far from everyone is destined to succeed there, or even to remain alive. Vyacheslav Khmelev and Nikolai Gordeev do not yield to difficulties, but they could not even imagine how far they would have to go to carve out a place in the sun for themselves.