Lena is forced to return to her hometown due to her mother's illness. For eight years she had no contact with either her mother or her younger brother Mishka. And there were reasons for that. But it was as if Lena was not expected at home. Her mother didn’t call her and still didn’t want to see her, and her brother, who called Lena, disappeared altogether. Soon Lena learns that Mishka and a friend found an ancient mummy in a steppe fault and decided to sell it to a local authority, who had his own insidious plans for the find. But the immortal soul of the mummy did not want anyone but her husband. And her husband is not an ordinary one, but Erlik himself is the ruler of the kingdom of the dead.