The case seems quite simple: a middle-ranking businessman killed his lover and went on the run. Finding him is only a matter of time. But the more Anastasia Kamenskaya and her colleagues collect information about every person involved in this story, the more complicated the crime begins to look. It seems this isn’t at all a “routine” murder—behind it emerge unclear but dark contours of some organized system that mercilessly grinds human fates into dust.
Within this system everything has a fixed price, including human life—and the life of a person costs very little. Kamenskaya doesn’t even suspect that she has been “priced” as well, and now she is an unwilling participant in a large, cynical game, the outcome of which is completely unpredictable…