Tsar Ivan the Terrible was very scary when he was angry. In order not to fall out of favor, Boris Godunov turned to the sorcerer, and he gave him a magic book of hours with spells and prayers... No sooner had Irina arrived from a business trip than she was immediately invited to the police. An investigator with the telling surname Woodpecker is trying to pin the murder of a strange old woman on her, who turns out to be not an old woman at all, but a man who has been listed as dead for many years. Drawn against her will into a whirlpool of events, Irina finds an old book with a tattered cover, and the incredible begins to happen to her...