The near future. Fifteen years have passed since the collapse of the Russian state. Along the Volga River and its surroundings, a neutral territory has been established, where the population has been forcibly relocated, but in some places people still manage to survive. The main character is a young man who lives in a settlement called Bolotnaya Roscha within the Volga floodplain, which has now turned into bleak swamps. By sheer chance, the hero ends up in the abandoned city of Volgograd and learns that the city is not as dead as it seems—it holds secrets, and once you discover them, you may have to say goodbye to your life...