Ilya Goryunov has spent seven years in prison on false charges of drug trafficking. When Ilya is free he realizes that the old life that he yearned for is no more. Although he did not intend to take revenge on the man who sent him to prison, now there is no other way out.
Faced with insurmountable problems, five young Muscovites flee to a monastery near the half-abandoned village of Topi. They view the trip as an adventure, a long-awaited freedom from worries, and an opportunity to forget. However, the journey turns into a series of mysterious events that only brings closer what they fled from and make them doubt the reality of what's happening.
When a murder happens in Norilsk, one of Russia’s most polluted industrial cities, a young police woman has to deal with the strange manners of the key suspect, the victim’s wife, trying to solve the case. More and more she moves away from the standard question of who’s to blame.
