Summer of 1872. A quiet county town faces an unprecedented disaster: the dead begin to rise from their graves. These animated corpses are ready to tear apart anyone who gets in their way. But their appearance in town isn’t an accident. It will be up to nineteen-year-old Ivan, a merchant’s son who isn’t used to life’s complexities, to investigate who is behind the invasion of the undead and fight them. The uprising of the dead is connected to the mysterious death of his grandfather, the wealthy merchant Altynov. Now the young heir will have to give up the role of an innocent dupe he’s always played—otherwise he won’t survive and won’t be able to protect his loved ones.