In mysterious circumstances, several well-known people die: artists, scientists, painters, collectors. Each death looks like suicide or an accident. Yet intuition tells Colonel Gurov that these are well-planned murders. The investigator finds that all the dead had paintings by a fashionable artist in their possession—only for them to then disappear without a trace. So maybe all the cases are thefts with murder? This theory remains working until Gurov comes across a mysterious “healer” who is actively interested in contemporary paintings…