Dasha Vasilieva has never been in such a stupid—no, actually, simply ridiculous—position. She was invited to the home of a famous doctor, Viktor Markovich Shkoding, who had recently passed away, to read his will. According to the terms of the deceased’s final wishes, she must choose an expensive gift for the good deed once done for him. But the paradox is that Darya is absolutely sure that her life path has never crossed with the now-deceased professor. And besides Darya, several other people gathered at the estate too—people who, judging by the text of the will, had also done him something good. True, they had no idea about it, as the saying goes, not in a dream or in spirit—yet they really want to choose a gift. But what ghosts are wandering through the house? What is the faithful cook Shkodiны so afraid of? And why does someone of the guests keep dying in the blue room all the time?