A jaded Siberian police chief investigates ritual murders and a Bratva cyber-heist, uncovering a covert alien presence stealing Lake Baikal which forces him to turn to a past he tried to forget.

SYNOPSIS:

Siberia, 2010. A brutal double murder near Lake Baikal pulls General Evgeny Yegerov, a weary Russian police chief, out of bureaucratic exile. One of the victims is the wife of Irkutsk’s DPS Director, a respected ecologist who left behind a cryptic message: “They’re stealing the lake.”

As Evgeny and his sharp deputy Inna investigate, they uncover a vast bank heist operation involving Iosiv Lisov, a Bratva kingpin, and Seo-Yun, a calm but deadly Korean hacker connected to a mysterious figure named Myung-He. Billions have been siphoned through a cutting-edge virus called Fireflash, but financial theft is only part of the story.

A raid on Lisov’s hotel suite erupts into chaos when Seo-Yun triggers a blinding explosion and escapes by hijacking an armoured APC. The pursuit drags Evgeny back into violent action, forcing him to rely on instincts he thought were buried with his former life as a state assassin.

Through flashbacks, we learn that Evgeny, and Irkutsk’s DPS Director, Kralik Tsyrempilon, once served together in a secret Soviet death squad targeting journalists and political dissidents. They were betrayed during a mission in Chechnya, scattered by Kremlin politics and bloodshed. When the two men finally meet again, they realise they were all deceived and manipulated. Seo-Yun’s real objective may not be criminal at all. It may be something not of this world.

The investigation uncovers a strange capsule hidden inside police headquarters and a bio-signature showing 47 chromosomes, a finding that cannot be explained by human science. The victims show signs of weaponry beyond known technology, and strange insect phenomena suggest something is interfering with the local ecosystem. Before the lab can process everything, it is destroyed. A mole inside the department continues to feed information to unknown handlers.

With pressure mounting from Moscow and the public, Evgeny authorises the reopening of a disused KGB black site. Seo-Yun is imprisoned there, but what she reveals could change everything. If she speaks, she could expose a global operation and confirm the existence of a non-human intelligence hidden beneath the Sacred Sea.