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Smert' otca Ali izmenila ee mat' i obeih babushek. Mama otgorodilas' ot mira, babushka Iza chereschur opekaet Alyu, a babushka Taya sovsem ne obschaetsya s vnuchkoy. Posle vtorogo kursa universiteta Alya edet v derevnyu na Pinege, gde zhivet babushka Taya i gde mnogo let nazad umer ee otec. Alya pytaetsya ponyat', chto togda proizoshlo s ee sem'ey i pochemu strannaya staruha-sosedka schitaet, chto Alya mozhet spasti ee ot suschestva, kotoroe poselilos' v ee tele esche v detstve.Tina uchitsya v aspiranture filfaka i pishet dissertaciyu o mificheskom suschestve, kotoroe vselyaetsya v zhenschin, zhivuschih v derevnyah na severe Rossii, gde protekaet reka Pinega. Tina pogruzhaetsya v mrachnuyu istoriyu i mifologiyu Pinezh'ya, a parallel'no perezhivaet boleznennye otnosheniya so svoim zhenatym nauchnym rukovoditelem, pochti ne pokidaya s'emnuyu studiyu na okraine Peterburga.