Dajneka was dying of curiosity—someone is filming a movie in the apartment upstairs! She managed to sneak in there and even meet members of the film crew. But the actress Lidiya Polezhayeva made the biggest impression on the girl. Soon, though, they found her dead in that very apartment…
The neighbor who rented the place to the filmmakers turned out to be the famous writer Vasily Tikhonov. Back in Soviet times, he became famous as the author of a single novel—and then ended up at the center of a scandal: people suspected him of plagiarism, but it was never proven…
Drawn into the investigation of the actress’s murder, Dajneka came to a paradoxical conclusion: the criminals were looking in Tikhonov’s apartment not for the published novel, but for the manuscript draft, where some secret had been encrypted…