A modest librarian, Nadia Mitrofanova, is unexpectedly given an inheritance: a house with a beautiful garden in nearby Greater Moscow. The neighbors there, however, are quite unpleasant: a sinister blind-deaf psychic, an aging beauty-psychopath who drinks chicken blood, and a suspicious old man who pokes his nose into everything. And above the dacha settlement looms a dark unfinished castle, on the ruins of which several murders have already taken place. And from the day Nadia and her lover, journalist Dmitry Poluyanov, stepped over the threshold of their home, strange terrifying events began happening to them—events that have nothing to do with carefree dacha rest…