In contemporary Russia there exists a hidden world - a world of magic and enchantment. Magicians have to hide from the nonmag society surrounding them, a society they are disdainful of, some even hostile towards. The Master of the Guard of the Supreme Council of Magic and Enchantment, Bakhrushin, loses his magic abilities and must not only avoid revealing this, but also prevent the war brewing between the magicians and the nonmagi.
The wife of a young man finds out that he betrays her. Trying to win her back, the man develops a plot during which he must convince his wife that she saw an completely different man. A man who looks like him, as two peas in a pod.
A private investigator who has retired from his business spends his days courting a sick mother. Once upon a time, the hero had an unusual ability — he could experience mystical visions regarding objects that were somehow related to the disappeared people, so he could find the missing.