The Nenets Mabet, nicknamed by his fellow tribesmen as God's favorite, seemed to have been born to be the envy of other people. He never knew misfortune; his luck, like the sun on a polar day, never set beyond the horizon. He despised human passions - his life was so easy and beautiful. Not knowing grief, Mabeth lived to old age, but one day, after a victorious hunt, a messenger of death came for him and took him to the borderlands of the world of the living and the world of the dead, where God’s favorite learns that he did not live his own life, and his lasting happiness was just a game, a pastime of bored gods... In order to return to people and find himself, Mabeth decides to undergo terrible trials - eleven “plagues” of taiga hell - and his whole fate becomes saving news for people.