Stormclouds gather overhead, enveloping the barren, hot salt flats, abandoned prefab-assembly cities and small nomadic communities of the Caspian Plateau in darkness.
It has been almost 50 years since the USSR's dissolution, with Khruschev's attempts at saving it having been washed away by the red tide of the 1991 August Coup. With the hardliners at last in charge, the USSR's chaotic and slow dissolution turned into a catastrophically violent, blood-soaked