Sasha Kislițkaya is an ordinary poor student dreaming of going to China. She rents a tiny room and does odd jobs at a Chinese restaurant. Maybe her dreams of travel would have stayed only dreams, if not for a chance meeting with… a professor at a Chinese university, Zhang Li! But everything turns out to be far more complicated. The strange puppy that Sasha and Zhang Li save from wild dogs grows a tail suspiciously similar to a fox’s. And when the creature mysteriously disappears, inexplicable things begin to happen around Sasha. And the key to it all may be only one thing: fox shapeshifters from Chinese legends really do exist…