Strange things are happening in an ordinary hospital. One after another, under mysterious circumstances, people die within its walls. And these deaths cannot be called accidents. In the pocket of each victim they find notes addressed to the head of the pathology department, Dr. Azin. Could the murders have something to do with the detective story he once wanted to write, as he mentioned in a recent interview? Or is the doctor himself somehow involved in what is happening? The cheerful old lady Capitolina, a big fan of tea ceremonies and an assistant to a journalist who published an article about Azin some time ago, takes on the task of solving the riddle. Working undercover, she must gather the necessary evidence. But behind the scenes of the hospital, she will not only be immersed in the medical environment and answer questions about recent murders, but also come face to face with her own past. With the events that once happened to a young Canadian student in the USSR and forever divided her life into “Before” and “After”...