A strange clinical picture is found in two patients in the emergency department. The circumstances surrounding the disappearance of one and the death of the other seem even stranger. All this happens while Dr. Toby Harper is on duty, and she finds out that just recently both were healthy and did not complain about anything. What happened to these people? For what reason did the attending physician of a deceased patient refuse to perform an autopsy? An attempt to find answers to these questions leads Toby to the village of Brant Hill, where rich elderly people live who believe that money can buy everything, even eternal youth. Gradually, a scheme of a crime emerges before Dr. Harper, in which those who took the Hippocratic Oath are involved... Previously, the novel was published under the title “Rabies.”