It is better to stay away from the ominous copy of Jerome's famous painting “Hannibal's Crossing of the Alps”. Otherwise, sooner or later, it will reveal its terrible essence, showing up at the new owner, and will quickly bring him to the grave... In the house of Elis Karsavin, just before Christmas, it seems there was a ghost. And some kind of evil one - shooting at guests! Or maybe this is the owner’s secret enemy, taking revenge on his friends for something? One of the guests, Mieczysław, an author of detective novels, is trying to figure out what is happening. Soon Alice himself dies, and everything is framed as suicide. And the main mystery is what does the recent theft of a copy of the famous painting by the French artist Jerome, a copy that has become almost a legend, have to do with what happened?..