Could the merchant of the 1st guild, Anna Filippovna Gladakova, have thought what her sudden whim would lead to? An ominous fate is on the heels of a medical college student, unwittingly drawn into an ancient family curse. And what fatal thread through the centuries has firmly connected the destinies of a modern teenager of gypsy blood and a rich long-dead lady, on whose grave the date of death is engraved: February 31, 1851!