The wife of a well-known lawyer, Alexandra Ilinichna Tarusova, tired of the bustle of the capital, comes to the resort town of Oranienbaum to rest. By chance, she becomes a witness to the robbery of her neighbor, Count Volobyov’s country house. Meanwhile, in Moscow, the body of the famous actress Krasovskaya is found—hidden in a trunk of stage costumes. The police see no connection between these crimes. Yet Tarusova, quite by accident, learns that last year Krasovskaya’s husband died tragically in Oranienbaum. And he had gone there for the wedding of Count Volobyov’s daughter…