Restorer Dmitry Starygin is working on recreating a painting by an ancient Italian master. The plot of the picture conveys the state of uncontrollable horror that gripped a crowd of people running without looking back. Having met the unusually beautiful and mysterious Lydia Green at an exhibition, Starygin learns that she has seen similar scenes from a contemporary artist, whose name she cannot remember, since she suffers from amnesia after the accident. And if Lydia finds that person, her memory will be completely restored. The very first questions of the old collector, who had information about the surrealist’s work, end in his brutal death. At the crime scene, the killer left his mark - a lead toy soldier. Such soldiers were once made for the Duke of Mecklenburg by his court alchemist Friedrich Rosenberg...