An old woman wakes up at the same time every morning for some unknown reason and goes to a deep forest, where one day she finds a twelve-year-old boy. The boy is alive and well, but is unable to explain what happened to him: he does not speak at all. The only one who can help is Pietro Gerber, a Florentine hypnotist who specializes in working with traumatized children. Djerber, who barely survived everything that befell him in the novel “The House of Voices,” gets down to business, the voice returns to the boy - and this voice tells someone else’s and very terrible story. A story that happened many years ago; There were kidnappings, disappearances, murders, explosions, and orcs - and a child who got lost in an adult world of inexplicable horror and could never find a way out. Jerber listens, gradually plunging into a nightmare, and he is watched by a storyteller, the keeper of fairy tales that make your blood run cold...