A city in panic—there’s a real monster roaming the streets. Many passersby have seen a strange man with a wild glint in his eyes, performing a vampire from horror films and frightening ordinary people. The well-known journalist Ekaterina Zorina had to believe these mystical tales when, the very next morning after a noisy party for the mayor’s son Mikhail Zheleznov, he was found dead. And he was killed in a very original way—almost all the blood had been drained from his body, and on his neck the police noticed fresh bite marks. A few days later, Katya’s friend Galya died—she was found in a ruined cemetery crypt, with a note clutched in her hand describing the performance of a black magic ritual… Nearby, in the same graveyard, they also spotted the very same “vampire” strolling among the tombstones…