Journalist Gleb Korsak loved to look at photographs that came to him on duty. One photo particularly interested him: the faces of the wedding guests are tense and frightened, and the bride is holding a broken rose in her hand... Anticipating an interesting topic, Gleb went to the small village where this strange ceremony took place a year ago... Masha Lyubimova listened in shock to the tired voice on the phone: Gleb in the hospital, he is dying!.. In his things she found a strange wedding photograph, asked her colleague Korsak and without hesitation went to the village of Khamovichi, during a trip to which something inexplicable happened to him... The village looked quite ordinary, but after talking with the local residents, Masha realized: they were hiding a lot, and it seems that Gleb managed to lift the veil of a carefully guarded secret...