A story about the life of nomadic inhabitants of the tundra from Indigirka to Kolyma during the development of Siberia by Russian pioneers. “If strangers come, how can you protect yourself? It’s good without strangers. Even if there are a lot of mosquitoes, we make a smoke smoke from raw hummocks. And a new people will come - how to deal with them? The Oleshkovs will be taken away, the sisters will be driven away, the brothers will be killed, the old people will be thrown into the sentukh: who needs the old ones? The world is quite small. On one side, behind the forests, there is a cliff into the lower world, on the other, a mountain into the upper world.”