A meeting with the diplomat Andrey Borisoglebsky became a turning point for investigator Kira Smorodina, forcing her to return to an unsolved crime. She couldn’t find the descendant of the “gray monkey,” who committed ritual murders every ten years—and that weighed on her. Now she has to correct past mistakes, not only in her work, but also in her personal life. Changing her fate is much harder than it seems…