A desire to get rich—and at the same time make the beloved man admire her—pushed Masha into a rather risky undertaking: traveling to dangerous places to find valuable decorative material. The threat facing the travelers was serious, because their route ran along an anomalous zone where a center for studying the effects of radiation was located. The danger for Masha and her companion increased after they agreed to give a lift to Moscow for a girl who looked more like an angel or an elf—someone with extraordinary abilities. As it turned out, Anna was a runaway from the laboratory, a victim of inhuman scientific experiments. Will Masha’s compassion for her fellow passenger win? Or will jealousy burning in her heart destroy the unwilling rival…?