Demons pursued the famous artist Vrubel for almost his entire life. Demons on canvas, demons in the soul—and in every painted monster and beautiful angel, living eyes of his one and only beloved, Emilia Prakhova, were depicted. Her love, quite literally, drove him mad and destroyed the artistic genius…
A young talented painter, Mikhail Verbitsky, before an exhibition slashed all his paintings to pieces, and afterwards died from a drug overdose. His older brother, Stas, doesn’t believe either in the sudden madness or in death from drugs. Too many questions this death left behind. Why did only a copy of the famous Vrubel «The Demon Defeated» survive among all the paintings? And is it accidental that Mikhail’s body was lying in a pose exactly like the Demon’s…?