Vacators and staff of the sanatorium are asked to assist in rescuing the crew of a helicopter that crashed in the taiga. Their involvement is associated with the employment of the main forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in extinguishing the taiga fire. Despite the fact that most people perceive travel as entertainment, the villages and forests of Gornaya Shoria have many surprises in store for them. Because the Uzyut-kans, translated from the Shor language, are the souls of the dead wandering through the taiga. The first drafts of the novel belong to the early 90s, the author was interrupted for a long time from time to time, because with some distortion the events he had imagined began to happen in reality. Consideration of this phenomenon guided the further plot of the novel. The work also includes many events that took place in reality, no matter how monstrous they may seem. For a wide range of readers.