A former employee of the “Special Killings” unit in the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department (MUR), and now a private investigator specializing in inheritance cases, Artyom is bored and decides to go to a restaurant to have a mug of beer. There, by chance, he meets a young university instructor. When the man learns that Artyom is a detective, he is delighted and asks for help with a case. Claiming that Artyom himself is better off hearing everything, he invites him to the university. On the way out of the restaurant, someone kills the instructor, and Artyom sets out himself to find the murderer…