1569th year. The founder of the merchant family, Anika Stroganov, is dying. Monastic tonsure has already been taken and a monastery with a family tomb has been built, but Anika cannot move away from worldly affairs: her father’s heart is restless for his sons who are building towns near the Ural Mountains. Here, at the Stones of the Lord, the struggle for life is ongoing, and there are strangers on every Fierce death awaits you every step of the way. Warlike Voguls, walking people, bloodthirsty wolf packs, a mysterious pagan heritage - it seems that the Perm land itself is rebelling against the Russian pioneers. And then there is the Tsar’s favorite Malyuta Skuratov, who is looking for death for the rich and willful merchants. One wrong step, one denunciation separates the Stroganovs from the inevitable reprisal, which became a common occurrence in the days of oppressed persecutions and executions. And Anika decides to commit her last great sin - to protect her sons, she sends a merciless hired killer who sees in his craft a manifestation of God's will. But neither Anika himself nor the Stroganov brothers have any idea what the service of a black man, Danila Karego, will lead to...