The soulless atmosphere of a women's penitentiary destroys the prisoners' personality, kills all femininity in them. The film looks at the rationality of the long prison terms for women with children.
The young and talented photographer Maxim Kaverin has a good life: an interesting work, the beautiful wife Olga. Suddenly he receives an order for a series of shots of one of the old houses of the city. The hero goes to take pictures and does not suspect what tragedy is going towards.
The company of young people falls into the forest outback on a mysterious lake and is faced with mystical horror. Based on the Belarusian legend that with the advent of night, everyone who died in the water turns into monsters that take the living with them.
