The borderlands are several regions torn from our world into the edges of eternal cold. And the Fort is both the heart of the Borderland and its bottom. A completely frozen cesspool, inhabited by not the friendliest people, for whom the value of human life is often commensurate with the price of a box of cartridges or a box of stew. There is simply nowhere to fall lower, but sometimes fate trips you up, forcing you to quit your established business and run wherever you look in an attempt to find a new place in the sun. But you shouldn’t relax even where it’s warm. And the once successful entrepreneur Evgeniy Apostol has yet to see this the hard way. Let the work awaiting him in Severorechensk not cause much concern at first...