He is a young nobleman, a St. Petersburg dandy of the 19th century... At his age, he thinks that he has known everything: from the charm of court balls and social events to the gunpowder of the Caucasian War. But the unexpected happens, and he finds himself disliked at court and ends up in Siberia as an ordinary exile to the end of the world. Old legends about the Mongols and shamanic curses are still alive here and they say that somewhere in the taiga there is an old city, older than time itself, it is not easy to find it, but whoever finds it will find, perhaps, something that is more valuable than any treasure on Earth …