The book was written based on materials from the review press about the disappearances of red-haired girls in 1978–2001 in the United States. A sleepy town lost in the taiga, a cool May evening, twilight. The sudden disappearance of a girl against the backdrop of long-forgotten disappearances from the past excites residents and haunts the psychiatrist and representative of the popular press - Pokrovsky. Due to the connivance of the authorities, Pokrovsky himself lost his daughter in the past, and now decides to challenge the local police and uncertainty. A mystery from the past that has surfaced and a series of new events shed light on this secret, as well as on the secret personal life of those who touched her. Private searches will lift the curtain on the personal lives of the heroes and prove that the disappearance was not at all accidental. What really happened to the quiet red-haired girl and what does this have to do with portrait photographs depicting girls 30 years ago?