Since the beginning of time, Lucifer has been playing his great game. Kings and priests, aristocrats and commoners, millionaires and beggars - they all dance to the Master's tune the same dance - the Dance of Death! In former times, he ordered her image from artists and sculptors; now contemporary art is in fashion. And hundreds of famous and unknown artists of modern times create their masterpieces from living material. Jack the Ripper, Chikatilo, the Boston Strangler... Tallinn police and restorer Dmitry Starygin are looking for one such “artist” who leaves verses from an ancient manuscript dedicated to the Dance on the bodies of victims. In addition to the desire to help the investigation, Starygin has another interest: in the engravings of the Dance of Death the place where the legendary box of Lucifer is hidden is encrypted...