Why, in this huge field where rye grows peacefully, do people feel primal terror? Why was a mutilated body of a businessman found there, and a year later an attack happened on newlyweds, who were brutally murdered—what makes people come here, a fashionable painter, a local police officer, a former soldier-mercenary? The mystery of this field, about which so many gloomy rumors circulate, tortures all the local residents. But the press-center employee of the regional internal affairs office, Katya Petrovska, and the head of the “lethal” department, Nikita Kolosov, are drawn here by official duty. They’ll have to figure out where the legends end and the facts—however frightening—begin…