The shadow of evil... Is it possible to summon it in a seance or capture it in a photograph? The Garland and Lockhart workshop is always lively - Fred is experimenting with new cameras and filming techniques. The matured Sally (read the beginning of her story in the novel “Ruby in the Dark”) opens her own business. She is now a financial consultant. Jim writes plays and works in the theater. But one day Sally and her friends inevitably become detectives. The seemingly random events that happened to each of them turn out to be links in one chain. And behind them all is the owner of the Polar Star companies. Bellman is omnipotent. He trades in death and creates monstrous “steam guns.” With every step, Sally, Jim and Fred are drawn further into the ominous shadow of the North Star.