Young Chiara Ciangini, preparing for her first ball, dreamed of beautiful dresses, dancing, and admiring looks. She couldn’t imagine that this evening would be the beginning of horror. After the festivities, there will remain only icy silence, emptiness, and death. The source of trouble is the mask her older brother gave her.
Four hundred years later, historian Stefan Yanovsky sets out to find this mask and understand why its creator’s name was erased from chronicles, and why almost all of his works were destroyed. But what does Chiara herself want? Who has she become—an ally or an enemy? And what price will the one who dares to listen to her voice have to pay?