An avalanche of human deaths hit the serene life of the holiday village. The list includes a retired party worker, a respectable widow, an engineer, and guys who have just served in the army. The bodyguard of Evgeniy Okhotnikov enters into an agreement with the Semenenko spouses, excited by the events taking place, on a joint private investigation. The trio of newly minted detectives soon comes to the conclusion that the murders are connected by only one rather shaky circumstance. Namely, by the fact that all the victims showed excessive curiosity about the new resident of the village, behind his back called by the local aborigines nothing more than a sorcerer. Still would! Bunches of herbs of unknown origin are hung along the walls of his gloomy home, the house itself looks abandoned, and at times a terrible heartbreaking howl can be heard from the stable throughout the area...