During an ordinary table conversation taking place between two friends, it suddenly turns out that one of the interlocutors was completely unaware of the old urban legend, which tells that a devil lives in an empty one-story house in the historical building of the city of Taigarsk. For this reason, people try not to approach the house, and even more so, no one tries to start any business there. Timofey Palinsky, that’s the name of the main character, for some reason inexplicable to him, decided to figure it out on his own - what’s really going on in this house? Where did the legend come from? But it would be better if he didn’t start this! In the course of his private detective initiative, such terrible secrets will be revealed to him, the realization of which makes his blood run cold, and his consciousness refuses to accept this version of the appearance of an urban myth.