When Vasylisa Istomina began a stormy relationship with director Vakhtang, she was simply flying with happiness. But after a few years, that apparently perfect romance left no trace—because of Vakhtang’s quarrelsome, inconsistent, and possessive character. Vasylisa endured the breakup painfully and gradually came to herself, but news of her former lover’s death still hit her like a terrible blow. Vakhtang was killed in a remote forest near the village of Avdeyevo, and it so happened that his body was discovered by Vasylisa herself. Suspicion of the murder fell on her first—but soon the investigation left the girl alone. Yet she already understood one thing: she won’t calm down unless she goes to Avdeyevo on her own and finds out what really happened to Vakhtang…