Officer Alexey Kartash, sent to serve in a remote zone near Shantarsk for seducing the general’s granddaughter, discovers something strange: mortality among prisoners sets all records. Rumors spread through the village about a classified facility in the taiga where people disappear, and about a mysterious cemetery where corpses are secretly dumped at night. Other soldiers prefer not to poke their noses into these dark matters, and Kartash is the only one who decides to lift the veil of mystery over this deadly place. But will he manage to uncover the secret of the classified zone before the prisoners mutiny?