Businessman Modest Pechorsky was found dead in the apartment. According to his suicide note, he committed suicide. Representatives of the prosecutor's office came to this conclusion. However, the head of the anti-banditry department, Major Vitaly Shchelkunov, does not agree with this version. Having carefully studied the details of the deceased’s personal life, the major finds out that recently Pechorsky had no reason to leave voluntarily. But on that fateful day, something out of the ordinary happened, for which the businessman had to pay with his life... A unique opportunity to return to one of the brightest periods of Soviet history - the post-war era. Real people, real crime cases, exciting plot twists. Characters similar to the iconic images of the film “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed.” The spirit of the times, reverently preserved in many families. The “kitchen” of the daily work of the Soviet police is shown in an unusual and realistic way.