In the country of victorious socialism, it is generally accepted that black magic, relations with Satan, cruel rituals of disappeared peoples are all fiction, a figment of the imagination of ancient people who did not yet know about the world everything that is known now. But to the “Consultation” agent Wolfram and his colleagues do not need to explain that in the real, understandable to the smallest detail modern world there are forces that have haunted man from eternity. They are able to give immortality, they are able to bear a curse. Not only for an individual, but for a whole family, for many generations. What could be common between a young guy who found a strange alien object and a powerful Kremlin ruler with one foot in the grave? How can the glory or death of a reigning dynasty be written into genes? What is the connection between the text of an ancient Tibetan scroll and the well-known fairy tale about Lukomorye? Agent Wolfram and his team have to solve this puzzle.