For the last ten years, journalist Jens Muhling has been traveling through Russia in search of stories that appear unbelievable: a hermit from the Taiga who only recently discovered there was a world beyond the woods; a mathematician who believes a thousand years of Russian history to be a fairy tale; a priest who ventures into the exclusion zone around Chernobyl to preach to those that stubbornly remain there. Muhling shows us a country whose customs, contradictions, absurdities, and attractions are still largely unknown beyond its borders.