They say that once, at the hotel “Bernadette,” jazz music, brilliant ideas, and hundreds of dizzying novels were born. But Nina Stelmaneis finds it different— a lonely mansion of her aunt Estelle, despised by the local religious movement. But is it really as lonely as it seems? A house with no place for light is full of strangers. Different, yet united by a shared secret—each of them has tied their life to the mysterious gentleman who gives people a second chance. Nina will have to find out everything about the family estate’s true background and face an obsession of gambling and passion—like a devil. It will take courage to survive. But she isn’t the only one who will have to make decisions—she is only a chess piece in someone else’s game. And who will answer the question of what’s better: death or life in chains of the underworld?