Deacon Andrei Bersenev was investigating the mysterious death of a Catholic priest - his body inexplicably disappeared from the grave. At the cemetery, Bersenev dreamed of a monstrous beast, and when he woke up, he found in his hand a piece of paper with a poem by Nikolai Gumilyov. It turned out that this was a page from the poet’s secret diary about his trip to Africa. Gumilyov visited a tribe of voodoo sorcerers and, falling into a mystical trance, wrote a prophecy about the end of the world... The deacon understood: at the beginning of the new millennium, someone wants to fulfill the prediction of the great poet. And only he has the power to stop the coming of the Antichrist... The book was also published under the title “Myths of the Shroud of Turin.”