Dead persons emerge in the Moscow-river| sit, leaning against to the ancient wall of Кутафьей of tower| lie, quartered, on a small bench in Kolomna. The unhappy killed terrible medieval methods, and in what their guilt - a killer knows only. A maniac putting one after other bloody marks in the center of the capital lays out terrible пазл as though.Up the frightful scent a pair follows from Петровки: protection probationer, graduating student МГУ, from little up nuts about maniacs, and experience сыскарь finishing provincial school of militia. These two can not stand each other, but each other is complemented ideally. Only they are in strength to decipher the rebus made a killer and leaving the roots to ancient Moscow, in old раскольничьи texts, in the symbolics of Saint Limning. A psychological thriller complete unexpected turns immerses in the atmosphere of noisy megalopolis in that cruel killer drags out on a surface the ancient vices of the capital, her frightful secrets and mystic symbolics, in cipher in chaotic interlacement of old streets, side-streets and areas.