Private detective Tatyana Ivanova hasn’t had to live far from civilization in a provincial backwater for a long time. But she ends up there, having received almost simultaneously two similar requests to investigate. Two young men ask her to find their fathers, who lived in a God-forsaken village. About three months ago, the men suddenly disappeared and haven’t shown up anywhere since. Perhaps they went traveling or found a new place to live—so the villagers think. But Tatyana suspects a murder happened. Yet there are no leads or evidence. How can she bring the people she believes are criminals to light?