Irina is used to always being responsible for everything herself. She felt all the more helpless when she found herself alone with her little son in a remote village - it was there that she had to hide from bandits to whom her ex-husband owed money. The village was almost extinct, but a search party led by Alexander Veretyev was located nearby in the forest. The paths of Irina and Alexander might never have crossed if not for frightening incidents - prisoners who escaped from the colony are wandering nearby, searchers discovered unidentified bodies in the swamp, and it seems that the bog hides many more dangerous secrets...