An unusual murder has been committed in the Moscow region - three young men are undressed, scalped, deprived of their spleens and laid with their heads facing each other so that it looks like a star. Journalist Alexander Patriarshikh, who found himself at the crime scene, begins an investigation. It soon becomes clear that this is not just a murder, but a ritual dedicated to a long-forgotten god, one of the Lords of Antiquity, known as Khthul-lu, the Eater of Souls... And it seems that his followers decided to return their master from oblivion.