At the end of 1789, on a trip to Italy, Romadin’s illegitimate son—an artist named Fyodor—brought not only a pregnant wife, the beauty Antonella, but also a terrible secret. Cardinal Farnese’s hounds were put on their trail—he considered it a matter of honor in no way to allow such disgraceful secret information to be revealed… Coming to France for a conference of fantasists, translator Tonya dreamed of a quiet rest and the chance to look at local sights. However, in the Museum of Fine Arts in Nantes she barely managed to escape an attack by a man in black, whom she later encountered at Paris’s airport. And after returning home, strange events poured down on Tonya as if from a cornucopia—all of them accompanied by the appearance of a Tarot card depicting the disgusting papess Joanna…