Snezhana Mashkovskaya led a quiet, comfortable life with her mother and worked in an atelier, where she did her favorite thing - lace weaving. Until the police contacted her with a request for an examination: a suitcase with the remains of an elderly woman was found in the forest, and there was also a chip - an old sketch of lace. The drawing turned out to be signed, and Snezhana realized that it was directly related to the history of her family and was created by the famous lacemaker Tata Makarova, her distant ancestor. But how is he connected to the murder and its victim? Unbeknownst to herself, Snezhana became involved in an investigation, which brought exciting changes into her life...