Konrad Widuch, who comes from Upper Silesia, is a veteran of the Great War, a communist with all his heart devoted to the revolution. After the war, together with Karol Radek, he leaves for Soviet Russia and implements the proletarian order, fighting in the ranks of Konarmia in the war of 1920. But the revolution devours its own children. During the purges of 1937, comrade Widuch, as an "old Bolshevik", is arrested, convicted and sent to a gulag, from which he escapes, and so begins his journey through snow, ice and tundra. Escaping from Soviet justice in the company of a blind sack in the convent and a servant girl named Lyubov, Widuch finally ends up in a mysterious settlement, called Cholod by its inhabitants. They live in accordance with the rhythm of the harsh, polar nature, breed reindeer, hunt seals and bears, speak their own language and have never heard of Stalin. By the time.—G