Which of these five men is the killer? Who killed the sixth during their traditional hunting trip? All the circumstances of this ill-fated outing are known, all the details of the life of each of the hunters have been studied, but investigator Zaitsev cannot figure out the killer. One hope is for the help of a friend, journalist Ksenofontov. So, five suspects are sitting in front of a journalist, and he asks them some absurd questions: who shot how many ducks, who brought what kind of booze, who drank first... In a word, some kind of nonsense. But, oddly enough, the more absurd the questions, the closer the moment of truth. One more step, and the killer will be in full view...