Detective Karmal Luneza has the gift of looking at the Other Side, in the colorless Gloomy City, where the dead, but not the departed, live. She has to protect her past from her own partner - the enemy, the Burnout. In the hands of Karmal falls the case of the murder of a successful writer - a philanthropist, a woman of great fortitude who managed to get out of a wheelchair. Unraveling the threads of the crime, Karmal realizes that it is closely related to her own past. The past, which she painfully tries to forget. And while her daughter suffers from monstrous nightmares, paying for her mother's mistake, Karmal tries to figure out how to fix it.