The path to the mystery of roulette. Oleg arrives in the evening with his friend Oksana at her husband’s country house. The house is located in a village, and there is a forest all around. At night it begins to rain, and Oleg notices, in a flash of lightning, a man who is looking into the bedroom from the street, his face pressed against the glass. Was it your imagination? But, having learned what the stranger looked like, Oksana, in fear, tells the story of a village burned nearby and a destroyed church, which sometimes, on dark nights, reappears in its original place. Oleg makes fun of the narrator, but she assures him that in different years the dead church was seen by several people who then disappeared after talking with a certain stranger...