Cossacks, witches, mermaids and other inhabitants of the Ukrainian village of Dikanka face their creator, aspiring writer and young clerk from Saint-Petersburg, Nikolai Gogol (The movie is screened without subtitles).
Nikolai suffers from the mysterious fits allowing him to communicate with the creatures of the otherworld. Together with his superior, brilliant Saint-Petersburg detective Yakov Guro, Gogol goes to the country to investigate the mysterious murders of young girls. Here he finds his beloved meant to play a crucial part in his life.