The Day Watch of Kyiv was defeated by the Night Watch with the tacit consent of the Inquisition and closed. Its leader disappeared without a trace. Strong magicians have left. The Nikolaev magician Swede, by order of the Inquisition, is sent to organize the work of the Day Watch, especially since inexplicable murders of ordinary people using magic are taking place in Kyiv. In the ancient city, a multi-stage operation of the Watches and the Inquisition against magicians from an unknown world is unfolding. While the queens of the world of the Others play their incomprehensible games in the hope of power and might, all the routine work and all the hardships of war fall to the lot of low-level Dark Ones - such as the Swede and his hastily assembled team. The main thing is not to be afraid and not to give up!