Young reporter Reuben Golding, on assignment from his newspaper, goes to a secluded estate on the Pacific coast. Unable to resist the beauty and charm of the owner of the estate, Merchant Nideck, Reuben spends a passionate night with her. All his plans to spend his life with this amazing woman in this amazing place collapse the next morning. Waking up after a brutal attack on the estate, Reuben discovers the dead body of his lover and terrible wounds on his body. For a long time he cannot remember the details of what happened, but his body begins to subtly change. For the first time in Russian!