Some fires cannot be put out. After the accident on Zawrat, Wiktor Forst had to accept that his health would never return to what it had been. He said goodbye to running, and to walking in the Tatras. He settled in Kraków and, unexpectedly, finally put his life in order, finding its meaning in family life with Dominika and her children. He had no intention of going back to the mountains. He understood that it was there that the worst of everything had befallen him, and he forced himself to wipe them from his memory. But the mountains have never forgotten him. The winter of the century is drawing near, and with its arrival the darkest secrets the Tatras have ever kept will return.