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23-year-old student Alyona returns from Moscow to Yakutsk after a call from her mother's friend Svetlana, who says her mother Anna has been missing for three days now. The girl goes to the police, who show her a printout with the last date Anna called a long-distance taxi service. The officer adds that, according to the driver, he took the described woman to a village called Symyr. Alyona immediately decides to go to Symyr and asks her stepfather to drive her there.