A hospice is a place where human suffering reaches its ultimate concentration. Here everyone survives alone. And dies — alone too. Death is inevitable, guaranteed, swift. That is why the murder of a patient condemned to imminent death seemed utterly savage, absurd and sacrilegious. Expert analyst Dronго is baffled — what happened simply does not fit in his mind. He conducts a thorough investigation. And now it seems he has picked up the killer's trail. The motives behind the crime turn out to be nothing short of shocking!