Everything looked terrible, but it was spectacular: a beautiful woman in an elegant dress lies in a pool of blood with a knife in her chest; her blond hair is scattered across the floor… Even the maid who discovered the body of actress Natalya Teplova said in the interrogation: the murdered woman looked exactly like in a movie! For investigator Pavel Malyshko, it immediately seemed suspicious—he noticed that the members of the film crew that had come to their small town near Moscow to shoot a series treated the death of their colleague far too lightly. And they point to the performer of the leading role, Vasya Korolev—supposedly he had left Natalya’s room soon after the murder. As the rumors go, Vasya had been trying unsuccessfully to win her mutual feelings, but hardly anyone knew that, in truth, his thoughts were occupied by a completely different woman…