The executioner during the French Republic meets with the embodiment of death. A German submarine sets off to meet the unfathomable. Newborn babies predict the coming end of the world, and the art of taxidermy leads to the most unexpected results. There is no need to reveal some culinary secrets here; the most unexpected meetings take place around Christmas, and the desire to build a better and fair world turns into a waking nightmare. What seems natural and safe can be an unpleasant surprise, people face monstrous choices, and time itself sometimes rebels against those who decide to play with it. These are the worlds of Yaroslav Grzhendovich, the creator of “The Lord of the Ice Garden,” and everything is possible in them.