The final novella of the trilogy takes place eight years later. The paths of the friends have diverged. Genka has changed for the worse, Slavka works as a pianist at a restaurant. In the courtyard where they live, an engineer Zimin is murdered. The main suspect is the leader of local hooligans, Vityka Burov. Misha Polyakov takes up the investigation on his own because he doesn’t believe that Vityka could kill a person…