Seryozha Ryabtsev’s kayaking trip with his parents and their friends began without any special adventures. Until one of my father’s friends told me an eerie legend about ancient bandit villages and a cemetery where merchants killed by bandits were buried and treasures were buried - forty chests of gold and silver. And it must happen that Seryozhka, alone, ends up in this cemetery at night. And then the earth opens up and things begin that you wouldn’t even read in a scary fairy tale...