In Yakutia there is an emergency mode. In just a day a fire passes through 150 thousand hectares of taiga. People are evacuated, animals cannot escape, the forest is dying. Residents of uluses pray for rain. Will help? The fire is already 60 km from Yakutsk. What caused the disaster? The heat wave or illegal deforestation, which they tried to hide?

This is a film about people who were killed by the coronavirus epidemic in Russia. They were among the first to leave, when many did not yet realize the scale of the disaster, did not understand how dangerous the new coronavirus was.