About the book: year / Nika and her husband Egor have long dreamed of living in their own country house, and now their dream has come true. They bought a large log house in the remote village of Platskinino, and Nika enthusiastically set about furnishing it. However, the very first days in the new place were darkened by troubles: a strange old man began to appear at the gate and ask Nika to let him into the house, saying that it belonged to him! Nika tried to drive him away, in response the tramp predicted her death. Soon, an accident really happened, which greatly frightened Nika and made her wonder whether she should have changed her life so radically…