Alexander Kukorov, a young star of the capital’s “yellow press”, is one of the helicopter passengers who miraculously survived the disaster. He and his fellow sufferers are in the very heart of a remote Siberian region. And finding help will not be easy. “The taiga is the law, the bear is the master,” says the favorite saying of the inhabitants of these places, isolated from civilization for decades, where it is almost impossible to survive. Here Alexander will meet cannibals and Old Believers Cossacks who keep ancient mystical secrets... Here, at the cost of mortal danger, he will reveal the secret of the mysterious Linden idol...