Deacon Andrei Bersenev was investigating the mysterious death of a Catholic priest - his body inexplicably disappeared from the grave. Bersenev was attacked at the cemetery, and when he woke up, he found in his hand a piece of paper with a poem by Nikolai Gumilyov. It turned out that this was a page from the poet’s secret diary about his trip to Africa. Gumilyov visited a tribe of voodoo sorcerers and, falling into a mystical trance, wrote a prophecy about the end of the world... The deacon understood: at the beginning of the new millennium, someone wants to fulfill the prediction of the great poet. With the help of the carefully guarded Shroud of Turin, the madman set out to prove that the Holy Sepulcher is just a falsification for tourists...