The Hole

The Soviet Union, late 1980s. After an accident at a closed research institute known only as "P.O. Box 17", an inexplicable hole opened beneath its mine building. It does not obey geometry: corridors lead to places that cannot exist, and its rooms rearrange themselves when no one is watching. The institute sends brigades of liquidators down into the Hole to recover what it gives up — anomalous samples, documents, belongings of the people who once worked there — and to find out what happened. Not every brigade comes back, and some of those that do are not entirely who they were.