A young, inexperienced investigator, Masha Provorova, is offended—no one takes her seriously! So the case of Larisа’s disappearance, the wife of lawyer Ignat Grishin, doesn’t work out for her. Larisa found letters at home from her father—someone she’d never met. She went to look for him and then vanished after getting off the train at a remote, lonely stop. Everyone insisted that the wife had simply run away with a lover, but something wouldn’t let her go—especially when, in an unnamed grave, they found the body of a young woman with an expensive antique ring on her finger…