Senior Lieutenant Alexey Kartash comes to serve in a Siberian prison camp located near a remote taiga village: he was transferred from Moscow for a love affair with the General's daughter. By chance, a young officer discovers that far from the zone in the forest is a mystical place — Simankina pigweed. Once there, people disappear without a trace.
Local residents tirelessly compose legends about mysterious swamps. Kartash decides to open the veil of the mystery of this disastrous place. He learns that there is a camp in the swamp where people are working in a secret mine under the supervision of armed guards. Alexey understands that he is involved in a dangerous game, and there is no way back.
Local residents tirelessly compose legends about mysterious swamps. Kartash decides to open the veil of the mystery of this disastrous place. He learns that there is a camp in the swamp where people are working in a secret mine under the supervision of armed guards. Alexey understands that he is involved in a dangerous game, and there is no way back.
