Civilization is buried under the ashes of nuclear war, under the snow of eternal winter. Twenty years have passed since Day X, but things have not gotten better. There is still no heat, not enough food and water. People are still clinging to life, but their number is decreasing every year. And then one day the residents of a destroyed town in the Kaluga region find out: they have nothing more to hope for. In Alaska, a super-powerful weapon has survived, and it is still operating, slowly but surely pushing the Earth towards the final catastrophe. You can come to terms with the fatal inevitability, or you can, in the hope of a ghostly chance, set off on a long journey with a handful of desperate daredevils. And Nikolai Vasnetsov, a very young, but already experienced fighter of the self-defense detachment, goes on a campaign. Through the kingdom of man-made chaos, maddened nature and fierce enemies in human and animal form... A new name in the “post-apocalypse” genre! An author writing in the tradition of Dmitry Glukhovsky.