About the book: 2016 / Five college friends lived in a small town in the south of Russia. While studying at the history department, they did everything together: they had fun, studied, and even wrote diplomas on the same topic - the Inquisition. It’s surprising that as soon as something happened for one of them (a bad mark on an exam, say), it was repeated for the others. But after college, fate divorced the former students. And it was a pity - and nothing can be done. And it was as if the old times had returned: in turn, each of the friends met a man whom, perhaps, she had no longer dreamed of, and left with him to distant lands... But the wise priest Father Sergius and retired investigator Pasha Sedov are confident that the disappearance of four of the five former classmates is not at all what it seems. And then Pashka fell in love with the fifth one! It happened inopportunely and did not lead to good…