It would seem that everything is as usual: a killer, a victim and a bodyguard between them. But Evgenia Okhotnikova, a professional bodyguard, feels that something is wrong here. Never before had she encountered an enemy whose actions she could not calculate. Except... one person, but he has been dead for a long time. Then why does she feel like a toy in someone's hands, as if she is one of those puppets that the Puppeteer used in his sophisticated performances? No, it’s not for nothing that she so persistently remembers the duel with that man. But the dead don't return from their graves?..