The mysterious Tibetan monastery of Shekar-Gompa has been turned by strangers with blue swastikas and reddish stars on their Budenovkas into a carefully guarded construction site. Right here, friends-turned-enemies Rostislav Artsyulov and Stepan Kosukhin—dumped far from blazing Russia—are now beginning to understand their future, and their own.
Civil war. Whites against Reds. Everything seems familiar and fits history… But there is one small exception—the official history has kept silent about what it means.