A woman turned to the famous lawyer Elizaveta Travina for support. Her seventeen-year-old daughter, Lena Pirskaia, had disappeared without a trace. The girl’s father, a powerful businessman, received a severed little finger and a note demanding a ransom. But soon an astonishing detail came to light: the money was received… by Lena herself. At least, that is what a witness claims.
Liza’s assistant, Glafira, travels to the settlement of Vyazovka to talk to Lena’s aunt and becomes an eyewitness to a strange scene: into the home of a lonely neighbor, someone clandestinely brings an unusual… coffin. Perhaps this grim find has nothing to do with the kidnapping. But Glafira has long stopped believing in coincidences…