The married life of John and Susan Carter seems happy. They love each other and their beautiful London home, they have something to talk about, not only one topic is discussed - these are children. The Carters have not and will not have children. So John decided - because he has a special right to do so - and a devoted wife supported him, deeply harboring disappointment and pain. But suddenly, for inexplicable reasons, their financial well-being collapses. The situation threatens to lose the house, the Carters are desperate, but at this point a mysterious stranger appears on the horizon and offers help in exchange for... a child. Surrogate motherhood does not frighten Susan, on the contrary, this prospect seems attractive to her in its own way, John is ready to endure some nine months, and the spouses accept the offer of a strange benefactor, unaware that from this day on they have become an instrument of some unknown forces. Previously, the novel was published under the title “Antichrist” ..