It is 1952. The world is entrenched in a tense ideological and military standoff. In the USSR, Supreme Leader Joseph Stalin has a few months left to live, and a future without him terrifies all his true followers. In abandoned parts of Siberia secret cities are built with one purpose: to outdo western science at any cost.
Inside the supposedly utopian perimeter walls of one of these cities, Olga Zimic, a CIA agent masquerading as a school tutor, and Anton Vikenti, a former hotshot police detective exiled from Moscow, work together on the mysterious murder cases of a local scientist and his research team. As a consequence of their investigation, they uncover the clandestine human genetic experiments, which take place in the city’s underground research laboratories: a state-controlled conspiracy, with the power to turn the fundamental rules of human existence on its head forever.
The city is named Akaban-75. It is the land of promise. But once you enter, you can never leave.