Detective writer Alena Dmitrieva goes to France to visit her friend. On site, in Burgundy, in the ivy thickets, Alena finds the diary of the criminal Nicole Gerardi, dated 1767. As it turns out, the spiritual outpourings of the vicious girl Nicole are being hunted by her descendants with similar inclinations. Alena is offered to give her treasured notebook in exchange for her life. Dmitrieva can only accept the terms of the French blackmailers. But the misadventures of the writer do not end there...