The North Caucasus has always been a hotbed of unrest for imperial Russia. And this time as well, sworn attorney of the Stavropol District Court Klim Panteleevich Ardashev, returning with his wife from Moscow to Kislovodsk, became a witness to a robbery and a series of brutal resort murders. What adds to the mystery of the crimes is that all of them were predicted... by a patient of the local psychiatric hospital!