A true Siberian saga that began in the early 20th century. The times of the gold rush in harsh, taiga country. Fortune in everything favors the young merchant Prokhor Gromov: his deadly dangerous journey down the river ends safely; his grandfather Danila leaves his grandson a rich inheritance; ahead lies cloudless happiness with the beauty Anfisa. But trials of gold and power are not within everyone’s reach, and the past of the Gromov family holds terrible secrets...