Pytayas spravitsya s gibelyu lyubimoy zhenschiny, Frants Vestern dolgo topil gore v alkogole. I vot, kogda on, kazalos by, gotov nachat vozvraschatsya k privychnoy zhizni, Frants nachinaet videt strannuyu figuru, kotoraya mashet emu rukoy. V popytke issledovat etot fenomen, on obnaruzhivaet, chto nahoditsya bukvalno v shage ot deystvitelno pugayuschego i znachimogo otkrytiya. Okkultnye sily spyat v serdtse gorodov i, vozmozhno, svyazany s nimi bolee prochnymi uzami, chem nam hotelos by… Sily tmy uzhe zdes.