Residents of the village of Lopatnikovo watch with interest the performance staged by the young actress Asya. The girl reads Ophelia’s monologue from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, everyone listens in fascination, and only private detective Tanya Ivanova notices some oddities in the actress’s behavior. She is clearly afraid of someone... And the next day, the body of the beautiful Asya, strewn with white flowers, is found in the river... Did “Ophelia” drown herself or was she helped - the main question that interests Tanya Ivanova. Local alcohol lover Petrovich, the only witness to what happened, says that on that day on a hill near the river he saw a real Devil with horns and a tail and in a long black cloak...