Having learned that Ilya had cheated on her for years, Major Valeria Novikova, in a fit of jealousy and anger, ruined the brakes of his car. In the crash that followed, the husband’s mistress died. Ilya left Valeria; she resigned from service and almost sank to the bottom.
Now it’s her—former police officer—who is suspected of all mortal sins: she is a blackmailer and maybe even a killer! To clear herself of the unfair accusations, Valeria will have to find the real criminal. But her helpers will be extremely unreliable: a neighbor swindler and a notorious liar…