He came to the capital from Siberia - a young, talented, greedy artist Dmitry Morozov. He, a self-taught poor man, strives for a luxurious life, dreams of wealth and fame. A meeting on Old Arbat with a mysterious beauty, a red-haired beast with a devilish fire in her green eyes, radically changes his life. Who is this woman? Dmitry doesn't know. But now she will always stand behind his shoulder and direct his actions. Mitya takes the path of temptation. Money flows to him like a river. All the pleasures of the world fall at the feet of yesterday's loser. But the price for this is a series of deceived, robbed, destroyed people. The devil is cunning, and he charges exorbitant amounts of money for his services. Here, in Kryukova’s novel, for the first time the devil is a woman. She has thousands of false names. But Mitya cannot figure out, understand who she is. Emil Dyakonov, a rich man and a mafioso, takes Dmitry into the family and brings him closer to himself. Teniers’s painting “Expulsion from Paradise” falls into Mitya’s hands. This painting is bought dearly by the wife of a Japanese millionaire, who has fallen in love with Mitya. Anna Kanda dies by his hand - only because he, having received the money, wanted to RECOVER the painting. Or rather, that’s what the devil standing behind his shoulder wanted...Based on the novel by Elena Kryukova (Elena Blagova) “Expulsion from Paradise”, work has now begun on a full-length feature film.