Little Elsa, left without parents, lives with her grandparents on a remote taiga zaimka. But life turns so that the girl is forced to go on a difficult journey to the nearest village. There are only matches and some bread in Elsa's backpack. Ahead-snow, frost and dense Siberian taiga.
This is the story of four friends who went to the taiga in the hope of making money. But their campaign turned into a tragedy: because of the meanness of his comrade, the main character Anat falls off a cliff, and if not for the help of a mysterious hermit, he would have gone where they are not...