Actress Lionella Balandovskaya always dreamed of acting on the theater stage in a Chekhov production. And then the chance presented itself - the play “Uncle Vanya”, Lionella has one of the main roles. However, not everything is so simple in the provincial theater where Balandovskaya was invited. The small troupe is torn apart by internal conflicts and contradictions, and, of course, none of the locals were happy about the arrival of the capital's star. And then the unexpected happened: during a performance based on Gogol’s Viy, a coffin with a pannochka flying above the stage fell off the ropes and fell, actress Karina Kropotkina died. And this is not the first tragic incident in the theater: many years before this, another servant of Melpomene, the young beauty Raisa Snegina, died. It is her ghost, according to the old-timers of the theater, that has haunted the actresses ever since. The husband persistently persuades Lionella to drop everything and return home, but she does not intend to back down and is ready to take part in the investigation of both new and old crimes...