This time, Group “U” - a shock and successful special unit of the security service - is faced with problems of a universal scale. Laima Skalbe, Evgeniy Korneev and Ivan Medved must find out the cause of the mysterious death of Nicholas Leiter, a prominent American space specialist and secret NASA employee... A chain of strange circumstances leads the group to a cottage community located near the Bad Lake, about which there are many rumors. And now the entire local elite - pop star Sasha, astrologer and soothsayer Kukuba, famous traveler Stepan Grakov, fashionable bard Oleg Babushkin, handsome actor Yegor Ostryakov and his wife Venus - are involved in the cycle of rapidly developing events. Passions are raging with all their might, and at the center of these passions is the smart, fearless and never-failing queen of spades Lima...