In a small southern village, a murder is committed: journalist Sergey Vyazemsky. He came here to prepare an article about mysterious phenomena happening in the area. Deep at night, the journalist was strangled and drowned in a river. A local fortune-teller is suspected of the crime.
Prosecutor Maksim Arkhangelsky doesn’t believe that a helpless old woman who moves around in a wheelchair could have committed such a crime. However, there is a witness who insists that he saw it with his own eyes, and on the suspect’s clothes they find particles of clothing belonging to the murdered man. Arkhangelsky decides to find out all the details of what happened—and finds himself at the center of events inexplicable to an ordinary person…