Around the 1500s, in a period of many revolutions and fights, wrath and loathing were determining factors in people's lives, in which the rivalry between a place and love for someone could be taken to extremes, setting logic aside.

The plot also portrays some historical issues lived along the way, such as the fight of Russian people to maintain their traditions and religion against the German enforcement.

"Under the border" is a mediumistic romance written by Vera Kryzhanovskaia and John Wilmont, Earl of Rochester.