Daineka was dying of curiosity: in the apartment upstairs they’re filming a movie! She managed to sneak in and even meet members of the film crew. The actress Lidiya Polezhaeva made a special impression on the girl. But soon, she was found dead in that very apartment…
The neighbor who rented the apartment to the film people was the famous writer Vasily Tikhonov. In Soviet times he became known as the author of a single novel, and then he was caught in the center of a scandal: he was suspected of plagiarism, but it was never proven…
Nimble though she was, Daineka—drawn into the investigation of the actress’s murder—came to a paradoxical conclusion: the criminals were looking in Tikhonov’s apartment for a romance/novel. Not the one published in million-copy print runs, but a manuscript draft where some secret is encrypted…