My life in a quiet village near Lake Ladoga was measured and calm... until one day I woke up at night, tied up, at the bottom of a motor boat. Who needed me, an unremarkable girl? And how did it happen that, unexpectedly saved by one of my classmates, with whom I did not have the best relationships, I found myself drawn into the old secret of these places and in the lives of other people? Who would have thought that persecution, fears, unraveling the secrets of past years and even the discovery of treasures would pull me out of the whirlpool of my long-standing inner experiences...