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17 let nazad. Glubokoĭ temnoĭ nochʹi͡u molodai͡a zhenshchina, otvergnutai͡a vsemi zhiteli͡ami svoeĭ derevni, umiraet na krovavom lozhe. Na eë izmuchennom lit͡se igraet poluulybka, vzgli͡ad ustremlën v omytyĭ lunnym svetom les. Poslednimi slovami devushki, chto uslyshala povitukha posle rozhdenii͡a rebënka neschastnoĭ, stanovi͡atsi͡a: "Prokli͡atie... malenʹkoe prokli͡atie, kak ona i govorila...". A zatem toshnotvornyĭ bulʹkai͡ushchiĭ smekh razlivaetsi͡a po vsemu domu, predveshchai͡a neminuemui͡u katastrofu. Nashe vremi͡a. I͡Unai͡a Immanuėlʹ izo vsekh sil staraetsi͡a zhitʹ po zakonam T͡Serkvi i sledovatʹ Svi͡ashchennomu Pisanii͡u. Ona ne dolzhna somnevatʹsi͡a v neobkhodimosti strogikh pravil - vedʹ imenno zdesʹ, na okraine Vefili͡a, pervyĭ Prorok pobedil mogushchestvennykh vedʹm i ochistil zemli͡u ot Zla. Sluchaĭ zamanivaet Immanuėlʹ v zapretnyĭ les, gde ona poluchaet v dar dnevniki umersheĭ materi i uznaet pravdu o nastoi͡ashcheĭ istorii T͡Serkvi. Polnai͡a reshimosti, ona nachinaet deĭstvovatʹ, potomu chto realʹnui͡u ugrozu dli͡a Vefili͡a predstavli͡ai͡ut ne dalëkie zlye sily, a te, chto zhivut ri͡adom kazhdyĭ denʹ.

17 years ago. Deep in the dark night, a young woman, rejected by all the inhabitants of her village, dies on a bloody bed. A half-smile plays on her exhausted face, her gaze is directed into the moonlit forest. The last words of the girl that the midwife heard after the birth of the unhappy child are: "Damn it... a little curse, just like she said..." And then a sickening gurgling laugh spreads throughout the house, foreshadowing an imminent catastrophe. Our time. Young Immanuel tries her best to live according to the laws of the Church and follow the Holy Scriptures. She should not doubt the need for strict rules — after all, it was here, on the outskirts of Bethel, that the first Prophet defeated powerful witches and cleansed the earth of Evil. Chance lures Immanuel into the forbidden forest, where she receives the diaries of her deceased mother as a gift and learns the truth about the true history of the Church. Full of determination, she begins to act, because the real threat to Bethel is not distant evil forces, but those that live nearby every day.