A mortgage is when you buy one apartment for yourself, and the second— for the bank.
"Down with mortgage slavery! Enough feeding the bankers! Land to the workers, factories to the peasants, water to sailors!"
Lucy Lyutikova is in a revolutionary mood; she firmly discourages her friend Yulia from taking an apartment on a mortgage.
After all, Lucy has a clever plan to get an apartment without risks and overpaying.
The friend follows Lucy’s advice—and ends up in prison; she is accused of murder.
A plump girl tormented by pangs of conscience takes up her own investigation…