A film from the film series Chosen by Time.

About the life and work of the outstanding Ukrainian director Leonid Osyka (1940-2001), about his teachers, students, about his surroundings. And about forming him as a director.

Based on the novel of the same name by Anatoly Shkarin.

1993. Due to a natural disaster, a novice writer from Kharkiv becomes a hostage of a small fishing village, shackled by the clamps of icy horror. Horrific murders are taking place in the vicinity, which superstitious villagers attribute to a terrifying swamp monster. But will the young man be able to unravel the tangle of mysterious circumstances when he seems to be opposed by the devil himself? After all, his uncle, the "mad professor," left him not only a house but also a terrible secret connected with an abandoned deep well.

On a high mountain by the ocean there’s a small town called Amberwood, in caves of which life has been developing for many years. Its residents did not realize that in the meantime another life form, quite different from the human one, was developing just under their feet.

Years went by, and the story of the cave creatures became an urban myth that local kids used to tell in order to scare their younger siblings, and only the older generation living in this town knew well that all of that was true.

Life in the town changed when local authorities decided to build underground sewerage channels. Or so-called collectors, due to the high rainfall in this region. The project aimed at solving the problem of frequent flooding in residential areas of the town after heavy rains, as well as draining wastewater to the nearest water bodies.

During construction, workers began to stumble upon sealed tunnels, which weren’t previously displayed in the general plan of the town. Without any hesitation, the builders began to use them as additional spaces for water drainage, not realizing that by doing that, they had destroyed the barrier between two completely different worlds. A world of eyes that haven’t seen sunlight in centuries.