A disgraced American journalist has arrived in Moscow to search for her missing brother. But after seven years on the streets and on the run in Russia, Peter Greenfield doesn’t want to be found. Still in hiding with his gang of street bums, Peter now has a wife and daughter to protect. Forced to flee a Slavic pagan camp, they’ve found refuge in a Moscow basement. But they can’t escape the family secrets that make them a threat to the most powerful man in Russia. TV reporter Molly Greenfield and her cameraman join forces with Syerozha, the former street rat now attending Moscow State University under a false identity. Molly’s hunt for Peter will take them into the darkest corners of post-war Chechnya, as they struggle to stay one step ahead of a rogue Russian security agent on a personal vendetta. As the secrets behind shifting alliances and the horrifying real reasons for Peter’s disappearance into Russia’s underbelly surface, Peter and his gang’s options start to dwindle to nothing. They are forced return to the underground left with one final card to play. A card that could win their freedom—or bring them and entire world to the brink of destruction.