Neither living nor dead, powerful, but bound by strict rules, the reapers of death from time immemorial accompany souls from life to life. Their work is an honorable duty and atonement for sins. The main reaper of the department for working with dead souls No. 4 has three hundred years of experience and an impeccable reputation. But one day a girl, Varvara, appears in his unlife and draws him into a dizzying hunt for the secrets of the past. And why does it seem to the reaper that once their destinies were already linked? All the answers are buried under the sands of time, but Varvara is not studying to be an archaeologist in vain!