Fantastical world of mountains of Nikonimor, southern shores of Yalma and Svardija, empire od Quadrifolium, northern parts of Letinen with its great river and mystical rites, is revealed through the story of Arne the palace-builder and Tisya the flute player. In the first part of the Nikonimor trilogy, Tisya and Arne,  trapped by cold, separated by waste wilderness and slow cataclysm of the known world, are trying to see each other through the waters of a mysterious lake, remembering everything that preceded that hard winter. But the world around them, especially that of the northern borders, is not still...