The prisoners who escaped from this taiga zone didn’t go far—they lay right there in the damp earth on the other side of the barbed wire. That’s why, lately, no one even tried to run.
But a prisoner known as Letun decided to try. Not on his own, of course—he had the support of the zone’s boss, the lawless thief-in-law Bedov. It turned out that escaping is easy, but surviving in the taiga is almost impossible. Yet everyone chooses their own fate: either spend the entire term on your knees, or fly toward freedom like a free bird…