About the book: 2017 / 1950s. The time of Stalin's repressions. Siberia, as before, is gripped by a gold rush, but lone prospectors can no longer compete with scientists searching for new deposits. Each gold miner chooses his side in this race, where the prize is a countless amount of gold dust. For those who do not want to cooperate with the state, security officers and the Gulag await them. The Siberian taiga is also merciless to humans. Not everyone will survive, and new geologists are ready to follow in the old footsteps.