1931. An American, a descendant of Russian emigrants, Mitt Kornev comes to Russia. From a professor acquaintance, he heard about supposedly unusual animals with luminous eyes living in one remote village. Aiming to write about this, Mitt arrives at the scene. Gets acquainted with a few residents and not only. Trying to unravel the mystery of these animals that scared away the whole district, he finds something much more, because the fate of those few remaining people is also a kind of mystery. What kind of creepy screams are heard night and day, where did the red-eyed animals come from and what does the name of the inventor Nikola Tesla have to do with all this?