Strange things are happening in the hospital. Press-center staffer Katya Petrovskaia is a witness to it herself. And the epicenter of this terrifying story is Colonel Oleg Prikhodko—the Troianec, whom eight months ago brought here barely alive from Albania. But there’s nothing you can ask him anymore—he’s dead. What’s more, his corpse was mysteriously taken from the morgue… Katya remembered a crazy nurse, then the boy with cherries in the hospital corridor… She recalled the words of his mother that her son was somehow replaced after they visited Oleg Prikhodko as a whole family. General Moskalев and Colonel Prikhodko were friends—combat comrades. The Troianec… A strange pseudonym—associations immediately arise… The Trojan horse: looks one way, but inside is something completely different. A carrier implanted into another environment, with a special “filling” made of grief, chaos, and death… And it all began out there, in the mountains of Albania…