In life, the supernatural has a place—even if you don’t believe in it a bit. It comes to you as an accidentally found trinket, a shard of the past, or a stray dog that has an incomprehensible power over you. It drives you along unknown roads, beckons with visions woven as if from your hidden dreams. It grants you love—unexpected and incredible…
What power brought together two people so unlike each other—the fur dyer’s apprentice Pavlov, a yachtsman, a dreamer, and the intellectual Marusya, who doomed herself to confinement in rural wilderness? What power led them onto a shared path that would cause a fateful repetition of events described almost a century ago in the gymnasium work of a future not-so-kind genius of Russian letters? And will there be anything that can upset the ominous plans of fate?