After being seriously wounded, Senior Inspector Armand Gamache retires and moves to live in the village of Three Pines. A quiet, measured life, in which there is no place for crime and murder, suits him quite well. However, even here he is not given rest. A neighbor asks him to find her husband, artist Peter Morrow. He left to understand himself and his work, but promised to return exactly in a year. All the deadlines have passed, and there is no news from Peter. Calling on his faithful assistant Beauvoir for help, Gamache begins a new investigation. He manages to find out that Peter managed to travel all over Europe, visiting the most incredible places, but the purpose of these movements remains unclear. It is only known that during this time he painted several very strange paintings. Then the fugitive returned to Canada, and his traces were lost in the Quebec wilderness. Is he alive? And if not, have you become a victim of a crime? For the first time in Russian!