Having despaired of finding an answer to the question “Why am I so unlucky?”, many of us assume: “It’s the evil eye!” That’s exactly what Vasilisa decides, too. After her first disappointments of adult life, she thinks it’s time to cleanse her aura. Following her aunt’s advice, she turns to a healer, Strakhov, at a center. Beautiful, confident, well-educated—he seems to possess an inexplicable power over Vasilisa’s mind. The girl can’t slip out from under his spell.