After despairing 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 Vasylisa decides, after her first disappointments in adult life: it’s time to cleanse her aura. Following her aunt’s advice, she goes to the healer Strakhov. Beautiful, confident, well-educated—he seems to hold an inexplicable power over Vasylisa’s mind. The girl can’t slip out from under his spell.