1990s. The mighty Soviet Union is in ruins. In search of work, young people go abroad and are recruited into foreign armies to participate in conflicts in “hot spots.” Some young people get there by deception. Ukrainian girls - the heroines of a new book by the famous master of action-packed literature Boris Yarotsky - masters of sports in shooting, were taken abroad supposedly to participate in competitions. Then, bribed with big money, they ended up in Chechnya, where, by order of the military leadership, they had to shoot officers of the Russian army, in whose ranks their relatives, acquaintances and, as it turned out, loved ones still served. Disobedience was punishable by execution or sale to the United Arab Emirates as slaves. To survive, the girls had to go through the most difficult trials, during which even the toughest men sometimes broke down...