In which a band of fugitives drifts silently by night down the frozen Angara, navigating treacherous ice and the menace of starving wolves amidst the glare of burning villages, their passage further imperilled by an enigmatic, flammable film upon the river’s surface. With icy currents blocking their path and Tartar gunfire resounding in the darkness, Michael Strogoff and Nadia make a daring escape on a detached ice floe, drawing ever nearer to the besieged town of Irkutsk as hope wanes and peril intensifies.