Someone asks for forgiveness. Panov V.Yu.

On the deserted coast of Lake Baikal, a fisherman who died from a heart attack is found. The situation seems obvious - death for natural reasons, however, Felix Verbin has doubts and he takes up the investigation of a case that is not to find out about the old expedition to the mysterious cape of the Red, whose participants are considered dead, and how it is associated with terrible The events in modern Irkutsk.

Baikal is ancient, the Holy Sea... On its shores, legends are intertwined with reality and become part of everyday life, filling life inexplicable. Some are trying to explore the riddles of Baikal from a scientific point of view, others believe in their mystical essence. Someone is trying to stay away from the unusual, and for someone a appeal to a secret is the last chance of salvation. But everything has a price in the world and sometimes it turns out to be exorbitantly high.