The year 1829.
Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his
own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire
print runs just to burn them all.
He is suffering from violent epileptic seizures and struggles
to keep on working.
Investigator Yakov Guro accidentally witnesses one such fit and
realizes that Gogol's visions contain clues that could help solve
actual crimes.
Together, Gogol and Guro take on a particularly weird and baffling
case that brings them to a small village of Dikanka, where everyone
has a huge secret to hide