Neil Platovitch Kruchinin, with his faithful friend and student Suren Gratchyan—or simply, Grаchik—and guide Ole Ansen, make their way through the mountains, a powerful ridge cut by one of northern Europe’s peninsulas. Their goal is a small Norwegian fishing settlement. There they hope to obtain a key to a hiding place where Nazi intelligence hid its archives and a description of the agent network preserved across all of Northern Europe.