1920. The civil war is nearing its end. Baron Wrangel, entrenched in Crimea, is gradually losing his position. Pavel Koltsov, authorized commissar of the Cheka, was sent to the Southern Front, near Kakhovka. Koltsov was tasked with monitoring the actions of the anarchists during the crossing of Sivash and the capture of Wrangel’s positions. Koltsov goes to the location of the Makhnovists, but on the way he encounters unforeseen circumstances that may affect his further stay in Crimea...Koltsov will have to solve many difficult problems. Who from his circle is a traitor? Why are the Wrangelites hunting him? How to eliminate a gang that attacks the estates of former aristocrats and seizes unexported valuables? How to protect captured Wrangel soldiers from senseless cruelty and executions? How to resist Rosalia Zemlyachka, invested with almost unlimited power, and others like her, ready to turn Crimea into a cemetery with just the stroke of a pen?