Viola Tarakanova is having a streak of bad luck: she can’t finish her new book, she didn’t receive an advance from the publisher, the apartment renovation dragged on, her loan is overdue, and she’s been in an accident. However, she got lucky with a kind person—her neighbor in the hospital ward—who offers her a job. On top of that, she has a new investigation: finding Rimma Markovna Vasyukova’s kidnapped son. Viola decides to use this plot for her next detective novel.