A Russian officer, intelligence officer and agent, Colonel Baron von Adelberg, who went through the First World War, makes his way through Russia engulfed in the fire of the Civil War to Harbin, to his wife and son. Every day of the journey - in a train with the legendary Kolchak gold, on the sleigh of a Transbaikal Cossack, on foot on the ice of the frozen Angara, in a wagon of Chinese smugglers - may be the last, but Adelberg stubbornly goes east. To salvation. To the family. Home. And who knew that a unique Russian city, which seemed from afar to be a center of peace and tranquility, turned into the epicenter of Russian unrest and the fiercest confrontation between the intelligence services of the largest world powers...