Where hatred strives to dominate... Where great losses have become commonplace, and personal experiences are simply insignificant... There, drawn deeper and deeper into someone else's conflict, a Russian army officer, Captain Volnov, lives and survives. The confrontation is growing and expanding. Someone else's war displaces everything personal, but someone decides that this is not enough, and drags Alexei into a series of inexplicable, mysterious events. Now his goal is not just to survive. His goal is to understand what is happening and get to the bottom of a more than strange conflict.