Why are people seized with primitive horror in this huge field, where rye is peacefully earing? Why was it that they found the dismembered body of a businessman on it, and a year later they attacked the newlyweds and brutally killed the happy husband? What makes a fashionable painter, a local police officer, or a former mercenary soldier come here? The mystery of this field, about which there are so many dark rumors, torments all the surrounding residents. And the employee of the press center of the Internal Affairs Directorate, Katya Petrovskaya, and the head of the homicide department, Nikita Kolosov, are brought here by official duty. They will have to figure out where legends end and facts, albeit terrible ones, begin...