Police investigator Givi Davitashvili, famous for his remarkable ability to solve even the most hopeless cases, investigates a high-profile crime: a woman has been found dead, and her apartment has had a portrait by Ilya Repin stolen. Was her death caused by an accident? Or was it murder—and if so, who killed her and, most importantly, why? Everyone is under suspicion. And even you… A classic detective story? Not quite. The novel’s action transports the reader to the beginning of the past century, when the brush of the “fateful painter” was creating priceless works that hid an unknown power. They say that anyone who fell within the orbit of genius could no longer belong to themselves: the ones captured in his paintings seemed to lose their will, and some even lost their lives.