The cozy European town was shocked by a series of murders of Russian businessmen. Detective Anna Svetlova and the daughter of a Siberian oligarch Desi live here in the same hotel. Desi recognizes the murdered friends as her father. And he himself is in no hurry to see her, only his voice sounds like an obsession on the phone. Desi begins to suspect her father of involvement in these murders. She shares her doubts with Sveglova, but she is skeptical about her stories. But their mutual friend, an Interpol detective, does not share Anya’s opinion. He flies to Siberia, to the taiga ghost village of Pelym, where, at the risk of his life, he reveals the terrible secret of a genius and a villain...