The correspondent of the newspaper “Evening N-ск,” Max Nevsky, after receiving an assignment from the editorial office, goes to a provincial town to conduct an investigative journalism piece and write an article about a mystery connected to an old abandoned building that once was the “Gremuchiy Ruchey” hotel. It seems like an ordinary business trip, but it will be his first time encountering something inexplicable—and to believe what he doesn’t want to believe.