The Duchess de Rochefort made a fortune for herself in card games thanks to her amazing ability. It seems that through a magic lorgnette she sees through all people. But one day this lorgnette disappears. Nowadays, a young girl Alice runs away from the company with bad intentions. In a panic, she gets into the stranger's car, but he turns out to be no better. Alice is hiding from him in an old abandoned house. When she returns to her room, she discovers that instead of her glasses she accidentally took a case with a lorgnette. The girl decides to get her thing back, but she can’t find the house - it has mysteriously disappeared. They also killed the man who offered her a ride... Who killed him? Where did she get her lorgnette? And where is the house where she found him? It all looks like a bad dream, but what really happened, read in the new detective story by Natalia Alexandrova!