An art critic at a famous auction house, Anna Engalycheva, had no idea why the boss was calling her. Imagine her surprise when he invited her to go to the ancient Chertyakovo estate, where a unique antique collection of the Svyatopolk-Don princes was allegedly hidden. One of the estate’s employees sold an antique clock in the shape of an elephant with a Maharaja sitting on it to an auction house, after which he disappeared without a trace. And his colleague was found brutally torn to pieces - according to rumors, an unknown monster has been living in the vicinity of Chertyakov for a long time, which goes hunting every few decades... Despite all this, Anna agreed to go to the estate. After all, it was not without reason that she managed to find in the elephant watch a cache with an encrypted note written... in her own handwriting!..