V strane, gde rodilas' YUmi, zemlya pod nogami raskalena, a rasteniya paryat v vozduhe. YUmi povelitel'nica duhov, ee udel samootverzhennoe sluzhenie, kazhdyy ee den' sostoit iz mnozhestva utonchennyh ritualov. Gorod, gde zhivet Nikaro, okruzhen tainstvennoy Pelenoy, iz kotoroy prihodyat koshmary chudovishchnye sushchnosti, pitayushchiesya lyudskimi perezhivaniyami. Nikaro hudozhnik, sposobnyy s pomoshch'yu zhivopisi ukroshchat' koshmary, lishat' ih ubiystvennoy sily. Odnazhdy duhi obrashchayutsya k YUmi s pros'boy osvobodit' ih, obeshchaya, chto v etom ey pomozhet geroy. No ne preduprezhdayut, chto s geroem Nikaro pridetsya obmenyat'sya telami! I kak v omut s golovoy brosit'sya v chuzhuyu real'nost', polnuyu zagadok, tayn i chudes. S cvetnymi illyustraciyami fenteziynoy hudozhnicy Alii CHen'! Vpervye na russkom!
