After many years of service in the press center of the regional police directorate, Ekaterina Petrovskaia has gotten used to a great deal. But it shocked her—just as it shocked her boss, Colonel Gushchin, head of the criminal department—what they are investigating this time. In a forest outside Moscow, a mutilated corpse of a man is found: decapitated, with his hands cut off, bearing traces of torture. This crime set off a chain of other mysterious murders, and together they lead to the Patriarch’s Ponds—famous since the days of Bulgakov. There, in one of the upscale mansions, lives the gorgeous beauty Regina Kutaisova and her daughter Pelopeia, who lost her memory and her beauty three years ago after an accident. Katya and her new partner, Klavdiya Mamontov, have to learn and understand what truly happened three years ago—because revenge turned out to be so terrible...