Ivan Podushkin went to the train station to meet a "charlotte" passed on to him by his brother's wife, but it turned out to be not a pie at all, but a girl — the tender-hearted Tatyana had decided to match her with Ivan! He was forced to temporarily shelter Charlotte in his apartment, and while the young provincial girl was settling into the capital, Podushkin untangles a case that his friend Max Voronov had passed on to him. A businessman named Artyom Bragin had come to the police officer. Someone is systematically driving him mad and pushing him toward suicide — that is the blackmailer's sole demand! And this someone threatens to reveal a dirty story from Artyom's past: his mother killed her stepfather who had been beating her, but the neighbors — the head of the police precinct and his daughter — helped present the case as a suicide… The blackmailer's trail led Vanya to the famous actress Nina Orekhova, but he was unable to speak with her due to… the star's suicide!