The borderlands are snow-covered lands, torn from our world into the kingdom of eternal cold. In this inhospitable place, icy winds blow all year round, and people never part with their weapons. The former patrolman nicknamed Ice returned to the Borderlands against his own will, and the main thing for him now is to break back into the normal world. Ideally, safe and sound. As a last resort - just alive. But how many chances to survive does a person with whom the Druzhina, the Sisters of the Cold, the Workshop and the mysterious servants of the Cold are eager to do away with?