In the office of the head of the militsiya, Captain Nikolai Sorokin, the body of his lover Tamara is found. Based on a note left behind, it seems to be a suicide. However, the captain himself and his young assistants Kolka and Olya think otherwise. There were no reasons for Tamara to choose to leave life voluntarily: she worked as the manager of the dining room and, for the postwar period, lived well enough. Sorokin never could have imagined that investigating this strange incident would take him back to his youth—back when death in a familiar woman’s guise almost grabbed him by the throat…
The atmosphere of the formation of the postwar generation, close to many readers—the spirit of youth and freedom intoxicates. From "everything is allowed" to "stop, I’ll shoot"—one step.