A journalist, Aleksandr Pimenov, has a new, difficult assignment: a desperate woman asks him to conduct an independent journalistic investigation and pull an innocent man out of prison. But is Ruslan Verbata really that clean? He is sentenced for the murder of a young girl—and, to make matters worse, she was pregnant.
His fiancée insists that at the time Verbata ran her over, she had already been dead for a long time. Most likely, the investigator just needs to close the case, because he doesn’t want to hear about the real facts and evidence. Someone benefits from framing Verbata—after all, even his lawyer was heavily intimidated so that he would refuse the client…