in the year 2012 (a future time when the film was made), an underground laboratory ten kilometres beneath the steppes of western siberia is the stage for the top-secret project bunker. distinguished scientists have been working on a mysterious scientific experiment for the last three years, with a strange, anonymous, and extremely popular erotic manuscript circulating through the complex serving as their only distraction. now a new researcher has arrived — a veterinarian, despite the lack of animals at the facility — and the scientists already in place are wondering why.