The literary world of Russia is shaken to its core when a mysterious gentleman, a professor of black magic, arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre entourage of servants. It soon becomes clear that he is the Devil himself, come to sow chaos among the cultural elite of an unbelieving capital. However, the Devil's mission quickly becomes entangled with the fate of the Master, a man who has left his former life behind and sought refuge in a mental institution, as well as his former lover Margarita. Both a satirical comedy and a daring analysis of the nature of good and evil, innocence and guilt, "The Master and Margarita" is the masterpiece of one of the greatest Russian writers of the twentieth century.