A magician from another world, Blenda Rowley, and an ordinary photographer from Bryansk, Matvey Sorokin, live without knowing about each other until an ancient evil comes to Earth - the First Magician. The town of Matveya turns into a war zone. Earthly civilization is losing to combat magic. Young people must stop the First Mage and save their friends who have become his hostages; to do this, they need to get the drawings of the “leddel,” a magical device that can interrupt the existence of the most ancient evil. By the way, having found himself in an unfamiliar world, photographer Matvey discovers that he has considerable magical abilities. Probably the strongest in the entire history of this world.