Postwar Moscow is shaken by a series of high-profile murders of railroad workers. Each time after the killings, the criminals are stubbornly searching for something in the victims’ homes. MUR detectives Ivan Startsev and Alexander Vasilkov spot an important clue at the crime scene: a trail from a trophy German car. There are only a few such cars in Moscow. The rest is to find the owner and, through him, reach the perpetrators. Suddenly, what seems like a simple task turns into a real combat operation for the investigators…