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Forty-year-old Uiguuna, along with her young lover and her youngest daughter Kyunnei, came to her native village. However, the lovers did not have time to properly enjoy the solitude: like a bolt from the blue, the baby disappeared. They search for the girl, but all in vain. The woman takes all the blame for what happened: didn’t she, in the heat of passion, tell herself that for the sake of happiness with her beloved man, she would sacrifice everything? Uiguuna believes that her secret thoughts materialized in a monstrous way. The girl's father sends former investigator Luka to the village to conduct his own investigation. The answer, as always, comes from where they did not expect...
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A mysterious Dark Horseman slays young girls near the village of Dikanka, and he has already butchered 11 ladies. Nikolai Gogol, a scribe from Saint Petersburg has to take charge of the investigation, but the closer he gets to solving the case, the more fits he has, causing macabre visions. When he learns the next victim is his beloved, Liza, he doubts that he can protect her and resist the murderer. Fortunately, he meets somebody who can help him: Khoma Brut, the witch hunter, martial artist and philosopher. Together they spend three dreadful nights in an old chapel reading the funeral service for Ulyana, the witch, and calling upon the ghastly evil spirit Viy.

In a large house in the middle of the steppes, the Shamanovs meet for a family gathering. When suddenly the eldest brother Victor appears after a 25 year absence, unspoken family conflicts come to light. Nobody suspects that Victor is escaping his dark past and that killers are looking for his hiding place.