Dasha Ignatyeva was desperately missing her husband, who had gone away on a business trip, so she allowed herself to indulge in a bad habit and stepped out onto the balcony at night for a smoke. Outside, she noticed a strange man lingering near the cars, but paid no attention to it. And early in the morning, an explosion thundered through the courtyard… Irina Sergeyevna Snetko, who headed a department at the same research institute where Dasha worked, was killed, along with her fiancé, the head of a thriving company. But which of them was the killer’s main target? Dasha now realized that the stranger had not been fussing around the car by chance. And the most terrible thing was that he had noticed her too, and now was surely afraid she might recognize him…