Major American tycoon, chief builder of Manhattan August Korda was killed in his own home in front of the only witness to the crime and the main suspect - his daughter Grace. But the girl suffers from a nervous illness accompanied by memory loss, so she cannot give a clear explanation of what happened. At the request of friend Cord, the famous Sigmund Freud himself, who at that time was in New York for the first time together with his student Carl Jung, undertakes to help her. The brilliant psychoanalyst begins treatment, completely unaware of how helping an unexpected patient will turn out for him... Where will Freud take him world famous method? Will the dream interpreter and expert in the secrets of the subconscious be able to identify the killer? What is hidden behind a seemingly ordinary incident in police practice? And what does alchemy have to do with it? A brilliant psychoanalytic novel starring Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Nikola Tesla.