She. Клер Клермонт is an englishwoman passing the time, европейски well-educated intellectual person, feminist, beautiful woman. Byron dedicated poems and poems her.He. Евграф Комаровский is a count, general-adjutant Александра I, duelist, gendarme and, however paradoxically, too writer, author of famous historical "Messages".Detective. 1826 year. Клер Клермонт and Евграф Комаровский become comrade-in-armss in investigation of series terrible crimes. In the manor of Иславское family - judge official, his young daughter and maid kills brutally. And this only link in the chain of bloody events, shock the Одинцовский district centuries ago, related to the name that, who peasants name Dark. Trying to expose the gloomy mystic secrets of the past and cruel murders, being in a danger, risking and not retreating, they pass the way to meet truth. Two charisma antagonist, two absolute antipodes, pulls that by force blazing up feelings to each other.