On a business trip to Nizhny Novgorod, director Maksim Ozerov and his partner Fedia Velichkovsky have to record a play for radio! The old drama theater welcomes Muscovites with riddles and secrets! And right during the performance, a murder occurs… The chief director of Verkhoventsev dies a strange death, and there was also an attempt on the leading actress. Maksim Ozerov begins his own investigation, with the young partner Fedy actively helping him. Sometimes it seems to them that they aren’t just recording the play, but are themselves taking part in an incredible, fantastic production, where everything is according to the rules—there’s an elusive villain like a shadow, there are beauties, there are monsters, and even a real ghost.