Under mysterious circumstances, several well-known people die: entertainers, scientists, artists, collectors. Each death looks like suicide or an accident. However, intuition tells Police Colonel Gurov that these are well-planned murders. The investigator finds out that all the dead kept paintings by a fashionable artist—paintings that then disappeared without a trace. Could it be that every case is theft followed by murder? This version stays in play until Gurov runs into a mysterious “healer” who is actively interested in contemporary paintings…