The life of the famous writer Seraphima Gippius was turned upside down by an absurd incident: her cat fell into an abandoned well. Having gone down to the bottom after him, Seraphima came across a suitcase with human remains... And literally the next day, at the opening day of the fashionable artist Stéphane d'Ornay, the writer again discovered a corpse. Socialite Dragosteya Kovtun was stabbed to death, and with an antique knife belonging to Seraphim! And visitors to the vernissage saw the president’s son Sergei Bunich washing his hands of blood... Gippius’s neighbor at the dacha, a retired general, told her in great confidence that Tatyana Shepel, whose body inexplicably ended up in the well, is none other than the sister of the president’s wife , Nadezhda Bunich, who disappeared more than twenty years ago. Seraphima always tried to stay away from the powers that be. But now she simply must figure out how the body of the first lady's sister got into her well...