The gold rush at the turn of the century, which swept Eastern Siberia and dragged hundreds and thousands of people into its deadly networks - geologists, Cossacks, peasants, foresters - continues to collect bloody harvest. Each new season opens fresh gold mines, where hunters for luck rush, often - to their death and very rarely - for happiness. So in the summer of 1904, when the news spread about another find of placer gold - in the Olkhovsky tract near the Silver Belt key, a dispute arose between prospectors: who would be the first to produce the cherished, damned metal? And, as always, people, leaving for the taiga, forgot who is really the owner here...