Countess Yelskaya doesn’t believe in ghosts, but the trend for everything mystical has taken over the minds of all the inhabitants of the Russian Empire—even in the depths of the provinces. Being in constrained circumstances and quite good at reading people, Maria Yelskaya decides to open her own séance parlor. She easily reads people’s faces, but the matter that at first seems like a simple pastime leads to the investigation of real crimes. What will happen when the countess plays with supernatural forces? She may not believe in them—yet what if they believe in her?