The Shot

The action of the concluding novella of the trilogy takes place eight years later. During this time the friends' paths have diverged. Genka has changed for the worse, Slavka works as a pianist in a restaurant. In the courtyard where they live, engineer Zimin is murdered. The main suspect is the leader of the local hooligans, Vitka Burov. Misha Polyakov undertakes to investigate the case himself, because he does not believe that Vitka could kill a man...