Investigating a new, tangled and complex case leads crime reporter Ekaterina Petrovskaya from the Press Center of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs to the Museum of the East, together with her friend Sergey Meshchersky. It was there that Afia Badyanova-Asante worked—the one found murdered by the shore of a lake. And one day earlier, Alla Polozova jumped from a bridge right onto the path of a train’s wheels. However, the engineer insists there was no suicide, and that some unknown force pushed the woman onto the tracks.
These two seemingly very different cases intertwine into one: the victims grow in number at a geometric progression. All leads point to the Museum of the East, where an exhibition of African art is being held. And the main exhibit—the “Black Head” carved from ebony wood with real human teeth—seems to demand ever more deaths…