“If money can’t make me immortal, then I’ll at least try to understand what it’s like to leave—get used to it, live with it, and even love it…”
Savva Rogozhin, an obscure painter devoted to mysterious cults of ancient Etruscans, suddenly receives an offer from a patron to organize an exhibition. But on the eve of the opening, the jewel of the show—the painting “The Fleeting Nymph”—is stolen. To avoid a grand scandal, the gallery director turns to a private detective, Vseslav Smirnov. At the same time, Smirnov is asked for help by his longtime friend: his sister, Alice, has vanished without a trace; she left only a note: “I’m going to the Land of Wonders.” How are the girl’s disappearance, the theft of the painting, and the mysterious afterlife world of the Etruscans— which the artist Rogozhin supposedly saw in an ancient mirror—connected?