Murder has no statute of limitations. Thirty years after the crime that shook the village of Sazonovo, it has caught up with its accomplices again. They are pursued by ghosts; old basements and junk in abandoned attics frighten them; lost treasures will not let them rest. From the past come people who were thought to be dead—happy, unharmed—and now living in Italy. And at the center of all these events is the innocent Yulia Asmolova, an artist who quarreled with her beloved husband Oleg. She bought a sinister house at the edge of the village suspiciously cheaply and discovered the diary of a drowned girl, in which some secret is hidden…