It has been four years since Ilya Muromets was thrown into a deep cellar on the orders of Vladimir Krasno Solnyshko. More than once the Grand Duke had time to regret that in a moment of anger he had listened to bad advisers and imprisoned the First Bogatyr of the Russian Land in an underground prison. The squad and the Kiev army went home from such insult, the heroes left the prince’s will completely. The entire military force in Kyiv is the youth squad and foreign soldiers. And a thunderstorm is already gathering on the borders - a new Khakan Kalin has appeared in the steppe, uniting all the Pecheneg hordes under his hand for the first time. The steppe king gathered an unprecedented army and is now going to war against Rus', threatening to wipe out cities from the face of the earth, cut down everyone, sparing neither the old nor the small. Forgetting his pride, the prince bows to the hero, asks him to come out of the woods and stand up for the Russian land, not remembering old grievances... In the new story by Ivan Koshkin, Russian knights appear from a somewhat unexpected side, but there’s nothing to be done here - genuine epics are very different from those retellings that are familiar to us from childhood. Extraordinary people with ordinary passions, heroes of the Outpost and warriors of the princely squads live their own lives, their destinies are dissimilar. Some are looking for honor, some for high places, some for wealth. How will they respond to the desperate call of the Russian land? Will they come to Kyiv's aid?