The famous writer Gurov meets a young journalist who is instructed to interview the master. The busy classic unexpectedly gives the young man too much time for an ordinary conversation, because he, to the smallest detail, to gestures, habits and character traits, reminds Gurov of a friend who died many years ago. One cannot believe in such a similarity. If this long-gone man, shortly before his death, had not predicted his return to the world of the living in a new guise, in forty days. And the thing is that the young journalist was born just forty days after the fateful event. Only those for whom the transmigration of souls is a reality, and the supernatural is an everyday routine, can dispel doubts and open the dark canopy. And Gurov turns to the medium...