Los Angeles Film Institute student-turned-prominent film critic Jonathan Gates becomes obsessed with legendary expressionist director Max Castle, who directed several controversial masterpieces in the 1920s. in Germany and a string of horror films already in Hollywood before disappearing without a trace in 1941. Castle's films have a strange, hypnotic effect, creating a sense of literally tangible evil. And their secret turns out to be associated with one of the most mysterious pages in the history of the Middle Ages... For the first time in Russian - the famous conspiracy theory bestseller, an analogue, as critics say. "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco - for film lovers.