Two prostitutes are murdered in a hotel room. Murdered professionally, with knowledge of the trade. The investigation is assigned to experienced police colonels, Gurov and Kryachko. They understand that this murder is the work of a killer—and that it didn’t happen by chance. But who needed the death of harmless women of easy virtue? The detectives find out that the victims had close contact with a local criminal authority. Perhaps the answer to the incident is hidden right there… But once they latched onto this version, Gurov and Kryachko didn’t notice how they found themselves at the center of a conflict between two powerful, irreconcilable organizations, waging a years-long war against each other…