No one is immune from family scandals. But when your wife, instead of a frying pan, picks up a sharp saber and is going to cut you in half for the amusement of the jaded public, it becomes a little uneasy. How uneasy Igor Semenov became, who, by the will of fate, was brought into the arena for modern gladiatorial fights. Having gone in search of Rita Dementieva, the daughter of his best friend, who disappeared without a trace in Egypt, he hardly imagined that, in addition to local gangsters, he would have to face revived mummies, wander through mysterious labyrinths and look for ancient artifacts. But family secrets are not inferior to the riddles of the Sphinx. And the kidnapped Rita will turn out to be the daughter of an Egyptian millionaire, and her own wife will be the concubine of his cruel nephew. Even his friend Andrei will suddenly appear in the guise of an Egyptian prince. In such a changing world, only devotion, friendship and love will help Igor save the people dear to him, much more surely than even the car of Nostradamus found in the tomb.