Student and aspiring writer Sergei Gushchin comes to the village of Pustir in winter to engage in literary creativity, away from the hustle and bustle. He will never write his fantasy novel, because fantasy will begin in his life - bloody, mystical, merciless and at the same time... completely real. He will be pursued by a boar, and he will be pursued by a boar, people will hunt for him, and he will will hunt people, he will meet love and, together with his beloved girl Nastya, will expose the real fiends of hell, who are more terrible than all the boars in the world.

“The Boar” is a novel in which fantasy meets reality, and mysticism meets truth life. “The Boar” is a novel in which recent history intersects with the history of the distant, the time of the Civil War, the Chekists and Baron Ungern, and it turns out that our future depends on these stories. “The Boar” is a literary sensation of 2005, it formed the basis of a multi-part film, which became an event on Russian television.