For a friend—into fire and into water! Dasha Vasilyeva rushes headlong to search for the impudent troublemaker who dared insult her friend—the colonel Degtyarev. The spinster insists that the bachelor Alexander Mikhailovich is married and has left his wife. Dasha is outraged. She knows only too well that Degtyarev is free and pure as a tear.
The innocent search for a namesake of the colonel turns into a criminal investigation—something, as everyone knows, Dasha is very fond of. Along the way she learns that another Degtyarev is a former convict. This camp lady’s man hides his criminal treasures in the “savings jar” of former lovers. Now his lovers want to get rid of this dangerous gold and forget the past. How could Dasha Vasilyeva not get involved, not help? They got rid of their problems—and she herself almost lost her life. Too trusting turned out to be that passionate private detective enthusiast…