A cruel and inventive killer has appeared in a small provincial town. He kills members of the family of a prominent businessman Postreltsev and places children's wooden cubes with letters on the body of each victim. But what does he mean by this? Investigator Kargopolova believes that traces of the maniac should be looked for in the stormy nineties, when the redistribution of property began in their town and a real war broke out for the local plant...