The assistant director of an experimental theatre is murdered—also, in secret, a financier, Ruslan Boitsov. Is it revenge by fraudsters who couldn’t split the budget money, or just a mundane robbery? The investigation is assigned to Lieutenant Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Lev Gurov. The detective’s attention is drawn to the director invited from Samara—Golubev. And all the theatre’s musicians are from there as well.
Perhaps it’s just coincidence, but Gurov doesn’t believe in accidents. He goes to Samara and, there, using his natural cunning and extensive operational experience, learns the details that give him a stunning new theory…