Stas, a veteran of the Ukrainian-Russian war, is sent to America for rehabilitation. But he isn’t truly healing – he’s just trying to keep warm, and keep from going insane in endless dialogues with his own conscience. Then, one autumn night, he catches it – the kind of scent he thought existed only in dreams. Elegant, elusive… and fatal. It pulls him into a labyrinth where nothing is what it seems: murders, secretive cults, charming villains who wear danger like a tailored suit, and the gleam of luxury cars speeding toward places no one returns from. To save the people who matter to him, Stas must summon everything war left him – discipline, endurance, and the raw will to survive – while risking the one thing no enemy ever managed to take from him: his humanity.