The events of the novel take place on the distant Tajik-Afghan border, which is guarded by Russian soldiers. Border guards have a difficult job - a foreign country, not always friendly attitude of local residents, incessant provocations from the Mujahideen... And year after year, the attempts of the drug lords to build here the “Great Heroin Road”, along which rivers of “white dope” will flow to Russia and Europe, are becoming more and more active. , capable of completely destroying the civilization of the infidels. Blackmail, bribery, kidnapping, murder - in this war, terrorists use any means...