In the suffocation of the taiga, hidden among the dark pines, is the God-forgotten village of Volchya Pad and its no less mysterious inhabitants. In this place, hunters shoot terrible wolf-like creatures at night, and gloomy and vulgar inhabitants endlessly drink, fight, sing pagan songs and wait for the arrival of a new crazy truth. Journalist Fyodor Khvostov arrives in Volchya Pad to write another article about pest control, but accidentally finds himself in the very epicenter of terrible events. Will he be able to survive, or will the Siberian village swallow his feeble soul forever? Oleg Stamatin is a Siberian short story writer, philologist, literature teacher.