The year two hundred and eight before the birth of Christ. In the Great Steppe, the struggle between two warlike peoples - the Xiongnu and the Yuezhi - flares up. The balance is disrupted when the tough and calculating Mode, heir to the Xiongnu throne, comes into play. Driven by a mysterious force, Mode seeks to change the fate of his people. Yuezhi is threatened with complete extermination, and only the brotherhood of Young Wolves is able to withstand the impending disaster. In the prose of Vladislav Pasechnik, reality is intertwined with myth, history with fiction. The world of the past in his stories seems to “live next door”; it seems that you can touch it, you just have to stretch out your hand. “The beekeeper has an excellent command of words, he writes as he draws... Emotions, eras, characters” (Eduard Uspensky).