Everything according to the canons of the classic detective story: a limited area, friendly and observant people—and… a murder that at first seems impossible to explain…
Senior Lieutenant of Police Nikita, nicknamed “Colombo,” takes on the investigation of the death of the clairvoyant Faina. The forensic examination shows that the woman was poisoned. At the scene, they find tea cups—and one of them turns out to have been suspiciously thoroughly washed. Among the first suspects is the neighbor’s boy, whose father often stopped by Faina “just to drop in.” But the investigation is in no hurry to accept this version: too many things do not add up. Step by step, Nikita goes through the dead woman’s past and the circle of her acquaintances—and soon he uncovers details that, to an uninformed person, would sound like a dark, frightening fantasy…