A married couple, Kirill and Marina, decide to buy a country house. They find an unbelievably cheap little cottage in a backwater village near St. Petersburg based on an ad, and go there to inspect their future family nest in person. The couple is offered a couple of days to live in the empty house, and they agree. The home seems to Kirill and Marina to their liking, but the village, its inhabitants, and the very atmosphere feel strange and frightening.