Two friends escape from the village to the city in search of a better life. However, finding your place in the city is not as easy as it seemed at first. After making several unsuccessful attempts to earn money and spending the last money on entertainment, the heroes begin to engage in petty crime, not realizing what this can lead to.

Due to a violent misunderstanding a young member of a criminal syndicate is torn away from familiar grounds of urban underworld and thrown into unwelcoming wilderness of Siberian taiga. Vast and virtually uninhabited, it provides little distinction between past and present, reality and myth. He must face the ghosts of the past and shadows of the present, and rediscover himself and his destiny, however shattering and unwanted it may be.

A young detective in the Northern Russian region of Yakutia is dealing with a seemingly simple murder case. The investigation becomes a dangerous journey into the world of illegal mining and gold trafficking in which life has no value.

在上个世纪三十年代的雅库特，一位老人和他的妻子生活在茂密的泰加林带里。牛群、打猎和捕鱼是这对老夫妻每日简单生活的全部内容。初冬时节，一只鹰飞到他们的花园里。这对老夫妇不敢把它赶走，因为在雅库特，鹰是神圣的动物。那一整个冬天，他们都在喂养这只鹰，以免它攻击他们养的牛。渐渐地，人与鹰的关系越来越近。在一个寒冷的圣诞节里，这只鹰闯入了房子里面，还停在了一个庄严的地方——圣像旁的架子上。从那时开始，人与鹰就开始了共处一室的生活 。