A tale of a Soviet ethnographic expedition that discovers a lost tribe of Samoyed-Nganasans in the Byrrang mountains on the Taimyr Peninsula and saves them from extinction. And this story began with a goose... Yes, yes - with a goose caught by the pioneers of the distant city of Lankaran. A note found on the paw of this bird led to an expedition to the Land of Seven Herbs, lost among the Taimyr mountains. It was there that the people worshiping the mysterious bird Mauk had to look.