1856. The crew of the English brig "Coventry", having learned about the mysterious illness of passenger Eleanor Ames and how her lover was treating her, simply shackles the unfortunate couple with chains and throws them into the cold waters of the ocean... Where does such cruelty come from? What were the sailors afraid of? This remains to be found out in our time days to journalist Michael Wild, a participant in the Antarctic expedition, who discovered the bodies of young people in a block of ice. But the further he conducts his investigation, the clearer he understands: there was no need to disturb the dead lovers. Because the ice is melting - and with it the hope of the expedition members for getting rid of the monstrous disaster that has befallen the station, from which even the most modern medicines and advanced scientific knowledge are unlikely to save...