There is a rift in the space in front of you. There is blackness in it. She both scares and attracts you. Will you step inside? The main character of the novel and his friend, driven by a passionate desire to unravel the secret entry in the diary of a scientist who died under strange circumstances, took a step towards the unknown.

It all started with Daniel Bertrowge, a university student, on the first day of summer holidays I accidentally came across an exhibition of the mysterious artist Felix Thornton. The strange world depicted in the paintings, something elusive, but as if familiar, attracted the young man and took possession of his soul. He felt that his whole life was divided into two parts: before Thornton’s paintings and after them. Having barely touched the secret of old Bushtuntz, Daniel's grandfather, in whose death, as it turned out, Thornton was involved, Matthew and Daniel end up in Dorleaf. There they find new friends. However, in this world full of mysteries, something awaits them that will force Dan to say: “If you want to win, say and do what you don’t expect from yourself.”