Sixteen contestants of a new survival show are taken to the Siberian taiga to compete for the price of one million euros. The rules are simple: no food, personal belongings, electricity, communications and civilization for hundreds of kilometers around. The one remains wins. Soon TV project turns into a deadly game, where LIFE becomes the main prize... What is it? Is it sick TV script? Who is behind this? And who can survive without losing their humanity?

Children are disappearing one after another in the city. Parents are desperate, the police are convinced that they will return on their own, and there are not enough volunteers for all of them. What if the children are kidnapped for a specific purpose? The case is taken by Oksana Koshkina, nicknamed Cat, who recently returned to the police. It seems that the missing children are part of a larger scheme that involves many parties. The deeper Oksana dives into the case, the more she realizes the scale of the disaster. And the sharper her own memories from the past hurt her.

Khabarovsk Territory. Taiga. Pavel Likhovtsev, a senior huntsman and bear hunter, keeps an apiary in the taiga and brings up his eldest son Eugene as a real man. However, with the advent of the nineties, the apiary goes bankrupt. Pavel and his family are forced to go to Khabarovsk in search of a better life. At this time, Khabarovsk is undergoing a redistribution of spheres of influence — all power and all resources are transferred to the organized criminal group "Obshchak" — a gang that will soon become the largest criminal group in the world.