Friends-journalists Zlata and Valentina went by car to St. Petersburg. At night on the highway they were stopped by traffic cops and asked to take a hitchhiker. On the road, the fellow traveler stepped out for a moment and disappeared into the forest. After waiting in vain for half an hour, the girls went in search and came across the guy’s corpse. In horror, the girlfriends rushed to the car, but saw that it had mysteriously disappeared. Scared to death, they remained on an empty forest road in the dead of night. But this was only the beginning of a vacation that began so horribly... Previously, the novel was published under the title “The Taming of the Shrew, or the Fateful Night that Changed Life.”