Permafrost specialists out to help a small and isolated village in the Far East.
Left to right characters are Bogdan Novak from a getezan community in Ukraine who loves to play the concertina, Aleksandr Chernikov who is a very withdrawn Russian and Botagoz (who still needs a last name), who is a butch Kazakh.
They met each other at the regional centre for higher education, which I am tentatively calling the Siberian Permafrost Institute.
This lot are sent as delegates to the sickly Far Eastern village of Belmorsk, who are dealing with the consequences of long-preserved chemical dumps in the permafrost thawing out. Or so the Institute assumed.
The reality of what is making the townsfolk so ill is much more sinister.
Question for anyone that might speak Russian, the name comes from the words for white water (Белмореск), but was shortened to Белморск overtime, which apparently means 'White Pestilence', which is so appropriate lmao. But is it realistic?
The other name I had in mind was Холодово, but I felt that might be a little too in one's face.