In an eternal, gloomy castle, childhood passes quickly . Titus grows, the boy becomes a boy . But his growing up is poisoned by a series of rituals and deaths. He dreams of freedom, and the embodiment of this dream is his milk sister, Kida's little daughter. But will he be able to escape from the stuffy walls? Will he be able to resist the evil that Stirpike sows? Save and protect his loved ones from danger?Continuation and denouement of the events of the first book. The heroes are waiting for the test, and the gloomy halls of the castle are cleansing. But the main question for Titus is put at the end: “Where do you want to go, if, except Gormengast, there is nothing?”