FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast seeks retribution for the murder of his wife Helen. Having taken revenge on the man who gave the order to kill Helen, Pendergast decides to give himself a little break and goes hunting in Scotland with his wife's brother, Judson Esterhazy, unaware of his insidious plans. Having seriously wounded Pendergast and driven him into a quagmire, Esterhazy finally reveals to him the stunning truth: Helen is alive! Miraculously saved, Pendergast sets out to search for his wife, which leads him to very unpleasant discoveries concerning the past of Helen and her family. Peeling off layer after layer of heaps of monstrous lies, he realizes that the truth is no less monstrous... For the first time in Russian!