Kapotnya is burning. The war between the Rasplata Rytsari and the Chistyye Krovi has exploded into a maelstrom of violence. Eli Winter is holed up in a dingy apartment, desperately trying to formulate an escape plan while a (former) doctor (drunkenly) tries to keep his son Joseph alive. And now Charlie Abraham, a woman with mysterious motives and an even more mysterious past, has made her presence known in Kapotnya. How could things get any worse, right?