“Viy” - a mystical story by Nikolay Gogol, was first published in the collection “Mirgorod” in 1835.

Seminarian Khoma Brutus stays at a farm, where kindhearted villagers serve him gorilka, feed him halushki and tell him about the beautiful daughter of the Centurion. But the fun goes away with the hot Ukrainian sun - black forces reign in the steppe at night.