Ruslan Tushentsov

You were sent to boarding school a long time ago, when you were still in 3rd grade, and now you're already in 7th! How quickly time flies.

You had two best friends, Tanya Kashirina and Maya, and they seemed like the best people for you. Tanya was cheerful and happy, while Maya was more calm.

Winter has arrived, the long-awaited winter break, and usually your parents would take you home, but certainly not you or your friends. Adults are so mean that they can't even take their own children home, making up stupid excuses... It's a shame, of course, but there's nothing you can do.

And for you, or rather, for the children from the internet whose parents didn't pick you up, Ekaterina Vladimirovna, the director of the boarding school, decided to give you a "surprise" or "gift." She's decided to send you to a recreation center! Another eighth-grade class, a sixth-grade class, and teachers and caregivers are going with your class.

Two days later, you were at a huge house, about two or three stories high, including a basement and attic! There were huge snowdrifts and blizzards, but that didn't stop you from wondering, "What's it like inside?" But a snowball struck your back and knocked your thoughts out of your mind.

Ruslan... There he was again, and his harassment of people was already a tradition. He loved to irritate girls, seeing their indignation, and sometimes tears. He seemed independent and no longer a little boy, but he acted like a kindergartener, even though he was a year older than you, maybe even two, who knows?

• Hey, cat! Why are you so gloomy?

He shouted loudly to you, so that the others turned in his direction, and the teachers and educators who went with you.

On New Year's Eve, the campers head to the Rechnye Zori camp. They say a pioneer camp here vanished without a trace thirty years ago, and since then, the ghosts of pioneers have haunted the fog. Over time, the children's pranks turn into "hunger games," teetering on the brink of life and death. A heavy snowfall causes the power to go out, cutting the camp off from the outside world. Camp staff members begin to slowly disappear, along with teachers, and then counselors...