A member of the Investigative Committee, leaving the service, took up journalistic investigations. The articles enjoyed great success, but under pressure from the defendants was forced to abandon this occupation and, moreover,. move from the capital to the province - his native city . In the new place, together with the criminal investigation officers, with whom he began a friendship, took up the investigation of a strange murder, originally presented as a suicide, but as it turned out, the roots go back to the distant past. The essence of the events, it turned out, is not easy to reveal and then thanks to the unusual abilities of people with whom the hero had to intersect during the investigation.