Do you believe that there are books that are deadly to open? And at secret auctions they shell out fabulous amounts of money for them?.. Screenwriter Ilya Samburov will have to see from his own experience how unpredictable the vagaries of fate are. Six years ago he divorced his wife. And suddenly she calls him and begs for help. Her partner, a producer at a famous film company, wants to kill her. Ilya agrees to settle the frightened woman at his dacha in the village. Feeling worried, he comes to visit her and finds his ex-wife dead. And this is just the beginning... Ilya has no idea what kind of trouble he has gotten himself into. And what role will the hunchback, the owner of the pawnshop, play in this terrible story - a seer, a swindler and a counterfeiter.