The world of Others is going crazy, and the spiral of events is twisting ever tighter around a modest artist from Novosibirsk, traveling around Asia with a backpack over her shoulders. She does not want to accept a magical gift and a world divided into Light and Darkness. Who is she - a cold-blooded criminal? Blind instrument of Fate? A pawn in the intrigues of the Great Ones? Or a Light Sorceress, endowed with her own will? To save life and freedom, she will have to fight with those who are much stronger, and solve a problem that the smartest and most experienced magicians could not cope with.