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THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY WILL BE DECIDED BEYOND THE ARCTIC CIRCLE...

- In the Arctic Ocean, Captain Alexander Gomelskij of the Russian Federation’s nuclear submarine is struggling to deal with a series of mysterious events and failures that occur during the return from a routine naval exercise.

- Major Gennady Volkov, a fighter pilot of the Russian Air Force, takes off to intercept an unidentified flying object, and shortly afterwards his aircraft is destroyed, leaving the major stranded at the mercy of the ocean.

- Svetlana Zaretskaya, a postgraduate geology student, is sent to an arctic archipelago, where she encounters a foreign photographer. Her orders are clear: all suspicious individuals must be eliminated. But what if she fells in love instead?

- Top CIA agent is trying to decipher all mysteries from distance with the help of his team.

-Meanwhile, in the far north, the Russian military uncovers a top-secret site that could change the course of human history, and explorer Aivars Balakin is preparing to step into a place where no human foot has ever trodden...