The proverb says: “An old friend is better than two new ones.” Nikita Izmailov thought so too - until his orphanage friend Oleg Koloskov stole his bride. Nikita became an officer, fought, and Koloskov, meanwhile, turned into a wealthy businessman, one of the main city tycoons. Who for some reason, out of nowhere, shot himself in his apartment, according to the official version. Two weeks after his death, from the hands of his ex-fiancée, Izmailov receives a letter from Oleg (from the other world, as they say), in which he notified that he was being hunted, that he asked Nikita for forgiveness and, in the event of his death, gave him orders to take care about his family - to help her go abroad without hindrance. Attached to the letter was a million-dollar credit card for services. The tearful request of his former beloved to investigate the strange circumstances of Koloskov’s death and, no less, the money, which for an unemployed military pensioner was simply manna from heaven, forced Nikita Izmailov to temporarily become a private detective...