Black diary. Barr A.

1939. The state security colonel goes through the back door to the courtyard. The convicts have already been built in a row, facing a red brick wall. The rifle unit is ready.

A minute before the execution of the sentence, the colonel receives an envelope marked "Urgently". Open. There is an order to cancel the execution. All convicts are rehabilitated.

But the colonel silently hides the envelope in his pocket.

A minute later the verdict is carried out. Among the enemies of the people - and that strange shaman without the name and surname, whom the colonel called the Chukchi in interrogations. The shaman threatened him, cursed and assured that the curse would be passed down from generation to generation, until, suffering and repenting, the last of the descendants of the colonel would die.

Many years later, under strange circumstances, the young man Vlad hanged. In a suicide note, he said that he had no other choice after he found out who his grandfather was and what he was and what he was doing...