Having received a strange anonymous letter inviting her to the provincial town of Staronikolsk, Yulia was almost not surprised, because it was there that Yulina’s great-grandmother, the famous silent film actress Anna Radziwill, mysteriously disappeared at the beginning of the last century. While sorting through the family archive, Yulia learned that a hundred years ago Staronikolsk was terrified by a mysterious killer nicknamed the Gardener, one of whose victims, according to rumors, was Anna. Murders copying the Gardener's crimes resumed when Yulia appeared in the city. And the girl immediately found herself drawn into the mysterious and terrible events of the past and present...