All his life, Tolik lived in his village—and didn’t know his secrets. He didn’t know that fifty years ago, on the eve of a wedding, a boy drowned here. And that the curse that sent him to the bottom is still there—it hasn’t gone anywhere. All it took was a small thing: the arrival of newcomers. One of the girls who came is an extraordinary beauty. And that curse passed to her. Now the newcomer is likely to go to the bottom of the lake any day now—getting married to a dead fiancé… And it seems this story won’t be without Tolik. It seems the old secret has something to do with him… and easily will drag him under the water too.