In a small town near Moscow, truly Shakespearean passions flare up—at intervals of more than half a century, terrible events take place here. Memories are still fresh of Lyubov Zykova, who in the 1950s became responsible for mass poisoning of children in a pioneer camp. Now another poisoning has occurred here as well—of the three heirs to a huge fortune. The eldest, beautiful Gertrud, died at a banquet held in honor of her grandmother’s anniversary. Ophelia and Viola, as well as the guilty party of the celebration, Adel Arkhipova, ended up in the hospital.
Katya Petrovskaia, a criminal correspondent for the press center of the Moscow Region’s GUVD, tries to find an invisible connection between the crimes of the past and the present and figure out who decided to continue the case of the “child-poisoner,” if back then, in the distant fifties, the crowd literally tore “Lyubka-the-witch” apart—and her body was burned in an abandoned workshop at an old factory…