Anton Kochkarev is a clown, a former theater actor who works part-time at corporate events. Francis “Prince” Mbele is a world-famous football player, forward of FC Sibir. Larisa Redens is a police sergeant...What could connect these completely different people? They woke up in Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, and they immediately had to fight for their lives. They will have to get out of the temple of science, which has turned into a place of showdowns between savage gangs. They will have to survive the winter in the taiga, improve their daily life, master the skills of fishing and hunting, and Larisa will even have to give birth and raise a child. And then, when it would seem that life has improved, the tiny prosperity collapses, swept away by a new, cruel order. Procurement detachments are coming from the side of the city, and civil strife begins among small settlements. New Siberia is advancing by leaps and bounds, crushing everything in its path, revealing human nature, leaving equal chances for both heroism and betrayal. It is up to the people to choose.