Our days. Large businessman Anisim Moskovkin's apartment burns down. The victim believes that the apartment was set on fire for hooligan reasons: nothing was missing from it, but a figurine made of porcelain was planted in it. The investigation is progressing hard. Perhaps investigator Volin will be helped by a new portion of the deciphered diaries of Nestor Zagorsky, in which the house on Sretensky Boulevard appears, where Moskovkin now lives?...Nestor Vasilyevich’s next memoir tells that after the dwarf Jianyang-goche spat a poisoned arrow at Zagorsky, the famous detective died. However, with the help of magic, Tibetan lamas-exorcists manage to return the soul to Zagorsky’s body. Nestor Vasilyevich is alive, but he is not aware of himself and does not move. Faithful Ganzalin returns with his master to Russia and finds a Chinese healer in Samara, who returns the detective to normal life. But Zagorsky does not have time to rejoice at this circumstance...