Angelika Feodorovna is the strongest divination mage and the elderly matriarch of her family, who is gradually sliding not only toward decline, but toward disappearance as well. Two sons: one has no children, from the other—only one granddaughter, unfortunately childless and completely talentless as a mage. How to save the family from extinction? How to save the family homestead from a death curse placed upon it? Only completely by accident, Angelika Feodorovna learns that her respectable older son once stumbled—so now, somewhere nearby, live his grandchildren, powerful mages.