A novel about the adventures of an ethnographic expedition sent to the settlement zone of post-nuclear mutants in the forests near Bryansk. The expedition includes Slavic brothers under the protection of Russian military personnel. Will mortal dangers await the expedition? You ask! Even at the entrance to the mutant lands, the armored personnel carriers carrying her are attacked by ferocious mutant pigs. In addition to dangerous fauna and flora, scientists and military personnel will face the terrible rules of the mutant community, where cannibalism and the struggle for existence, unhampered by social conventions, flourish.