On New Year's Eve, Izmailov discovers that he is running the risk of becoming unemployed in the coming year - there are plans to disband the police department charged with maintaining public order in the elite Rublyovka district.
Grisha decides that if one needs a helping hand, one will find it at the end of one's own arm. And he organizes a New Year's Eve bank robbery to become the one to brilliantly solve this case.
No meteorites hit Earth, no terrorists put the world in danger, no atomic war was started, but something did go wrong. Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from the Space. What military forces find outside the Ring is shocking. There are dead corpses everywhere: in stores, in cars, on roads, in hospitals and railway stations. Who or what is destroying all life on Earth? How long will the last outpost of mankind survive.