Ninel Aleksandrovna Koltsova found her new calling in the modeling business during the difficult years of the beginning of perestroika. With the help of her husband Pyotr Arkadyevich Koltsov, who worked as the director of a jewelry store, she opened the Aphrodite modeling agency. Based on her sketches, attractive models of women's clothing were sewn here: evening dresses, business suits, outfits for leisure, and charming female models demonstrated them with great success at shows. The agency worked successfully, but suddenly the irreparable happened: Pyotr Arkadyevich was killed in the entrance of his house. The murder occurred after the director moved a safe with his personal jewelry collection home from the store. The investigation was entrusted to a young investigator, Dmitry Rogozhin. He takes up the case and during the investigation accidentally discovers that Koltsov’s widow and his immediate superior Knyazev were in an affair. Many tricky questions arise in the operative’s head, and first of all he wants to directly ask his boss: what connects him with the wife of the murdered jeweler? But, as you know, subordinates do not have the right to ask questions to their seniors...