A reporter from Yekaterinburg, on assignment from his editorial office, finds himself in a village lost in the taiga, where he hears an ancient legend about the lord of the forest. Returning home, he suddenly begins to see and hear this ancient spirit, who asks him to save the disappearing fantastic creatures. The journalist agrees and, together with his 12-year-old daughter, who has come to him for the holidays from Moscow, sets off for lands almost untouched by civilization.