Semmelweis syndrome in medical science is a denial of science, a willingness to sacrifice lives to the detriment of stupid traditions, the apogee of ignorance... Somewhere in the vastness of the Earth, the country of Raska is lost. Here it blooms profusely. A young doctor arrives in a provincial town whose mayor has decided to open... a municipal brothel. The venereal disease epidemic turned out to be the lesser of the evils that happened. Sepsis struck not only the bodies of local residents, but also their minds - and long before the events described.