Marina Kovalevskaya marries the son of the head of the chemical laboratory of the institute, where she herself works. Relations with my mother-in-law and boss, nicknamed Ilse Koch, are tense. At a corporate party in honor of Ilse, who is retiring, a tragedy occurs - the son of the hero of the occasion is poisoned and suspicions fall on Marina. Marina has to go through a difficult path of reboot and start living again. On this path she will meet her paternal sister, Lika. The designer and top manager of the successful company Lika, the psychic Niknik, predicted that she would meet her knight in Europe, in some warm country, it seems, in Italy. Niknik described a beautiful Mediterranean-type quarter in which this would happen and Lika, believing the prediction, waits for the meeting, ignoring another admirer whom she met at the Genoese fortress in Crimea. Unraveling the tightly drawn knot of intrigue, the reader will meet other no less interesting characters and will certainly be surprised by the unexpected outcome of the novel.