It looks like everything is the same as usual: a killer, a victim, and a bodyguard in between. But professional bodyguard Yevgenia Okhotnikova feels that something is wrong here. Never before has she faced an opponent whose actions she couldn’t predict. Except for… one person—but that person has been dead for a long time. So why does she feel like a toy in someone else’s hands—like those puppets the Puppet Master used in his elaborate performances? No, it’s not for nothing that she keeps remembering the duel with that man. But don’t the dead come back from their graves?