Anya Soboleva was quietly going crazy. The reason for this was a meeting on the stairs with a strange black old woman from the apartment on the floor below. She claimed that Anya would soon suffer the fate of the girl who lived in this house at the beginning of the last century and died. “The killer will come any day now,” the madwoman said, “he will come, and everything will turn red...” When Anya decided to go down the stairs again, the workers who were making repairs in the apartment from which the old woman came out said that no one lived here. But the prophecy came true... True, it was not Anya who died, but the seer herself, who appeared to the girl either in a dream or in reality. But the criminal was real! Or is it not?..

Previously the novel was published under the title “Evening in Red”