Returning home late at night, Vera discovers the mutilated corpse of her father—a famous jeweler—in the entrance hall, and their apartment ransacked. The jeweler’s business partners hire private detective Tatyana Ivanova to find the murderer and the shared money that was in the apartment at the time. Tatyana begins her investigation and very quickly realizes that neither the local mafia nor visiting crooks had anything to do with this savage crime. So who are these robbers, at the very mention of whom the dead man’s daughter suddenly begins to panic terribly?