A series of mysterious murders occurs in the Pskov region: several people die, including the second secretary of the city party committee and the local district officer. Major of the militia Pavel Zverev and his assistant Veniamin Kostin begin the investigation. They learn that the victims were friends from the front and sometimes met to go hunting. Why would someone decide to kill the veterans? Was this sabotage against party workers? Zverev and Kostin develop one version after another until they come face to face with a new, carefully planned terrible crime…