The subtle psychologism of the narrative inherent in the books of Mariana Romanova makes the reader believe in the mystical events of her stories. Revolutionary Petrograd, modern Moscow, a strange settlement in the northern forests, the hippie commune of the seventies, a poor village in equatorial Africa - against the background of these decorations, a terrible legend is being investigated that there are people capable of raising the dead from the earth. In an equally fascinating intonation, the author tells about a village in which people disappear, about a woman who falls in love only with old men, about ancient priestly rites, about how people treat the dead and death, and about what is essentially death.