Saburova, an investigator on especially important cases, is sent to the Chernobyl zone to look into a mysterious death. One of the lifelong prisoners who took part in a scientific and social experiment died under very strange circumstances. Who broke into the Black Sector? Why didn’t the ZASLON system work? Or is the killer one of the inmates? There are too many questions and bullets whistle over everyone’s heads. And spring is raging all around…