“Plackart Ticket” is the first part of Lada Kutuzova’s mystical trilogy “Temnogorye.” A fugitive, a manipulator, and a murderer. All of them bought a plackart ticket to the station “Temnogorye”—as if by a simple coincidence. The girl Katya wanted to teach her mother a lesson after a quarrel; Igor wanted to escape his teenage life; and Dmitry Ivanovich, nicknamed “the Surgeon,” wanted to escape the demons of the past. None of this motley company knew that once they stepped onto the platform, they would find themselves in a strange, whimsical corridor of other worlds. From here there are three roads: dark, light, and gray—but which door will open for them? What will they have to do and what will they have to discover about themselves? The initiation journey begins, and there’s only one condition set before the trio: they can return home only together…