The book is based on original materials both from the author’s own practice, a former Russian investigator and lawyer, and from the practice of other Russian lawyers. However, coincidences of names and titles with the names and names of real-life persons and places can only be accidental. A woman turns to the Gloria agency with a request to find her missing friend. Anton Pletnev and Alexander Borisovich Turetsky are taking on the case. A simple case at first glance turns out to be the first link in a series of strange and terrible incidents. The former “important” Turetsky finds himself drawn into an almost mystical story, where everything is not what it seems, where absurdity rules the roost, where reality and dreams change places and where even found the corpses disappear from the morgue by morning. Turetsky stubbornly follows the trail of the missing girl, not realizing that at the end of the path a mortal battle with the Unknown awaits him: