The hall was packed. The entire city’s elite gathered for the presentation of a new collection at the “Ikeara-Regia” fashion house, anticipating an astonishingly beautiful and spectacular show. And maestro Igor Ngelu-Ikeara, once again, didn’t let them down. On the runway, the beautiful Snezana shone in his exquisite outfits. She was presenting a wedding dress for good reason: at the banquet after the show, everyone congratulated her on her upcoming marriage and shouted to her and her groom, “Bitterly!” As it turned out, they were too quick: that very evening, Snezana was murdered right in her dressing room. At the same time, an expensive necklace vanished—a gift from her fiancé, Ruslan Brodsky, a successful architect. But was it really that necklace that became the cause of the crime? The cruel, haughty girl had many enemies. The police captain Nikolai Astakhov intends to find the person who dared take the final step—assisted by his loyal friends, editor Saveliy Zotov and philosopher Fyodor Alekseev…