Dana met up with her former classmates under tragic circumstances—at the funeral of their teacher, who was shot in a park. What could a harmless elderly woman possibly have done? It had nothing to do with Dana directly, yet something wouldn’t let her forget Vera Sergeevna’s death. Starting to gather information carefully, Dana and her school friend Nina came to the conclusion that powerful people were involved in the case. Their orbit is drawn, body and soul, toward Ignat—another of their classmates and, coincidentally, Nina’s lover…