In the word of glorious kingdoms of magic, there's a dark secret of a cursed nation. A young enchantress is haunted by this secret. To get her answers, she dares to go on a reckless adventure with a stranger fascinated by the same mystery.

A girl with two brothers rides a car in the winter Crimea - it's good to understand with whom she should be and what she should be.

Fluke Kelso, a dissipated, middle-aged former Oxford historian, who is in Moscow to attend a conference on the newly opened Soviet archives, receives in his hotel a very unexpected visitor.