For their anniversary, the grandchildren presented Vladislav Inozemtsev and his old friend Radiy Ryzhov—the rocket scientists who stood at the origins of the era of space exploration—a truly royal gift: a trip to Baikonur, where they spent their youth. But the journey into the past turned out to be bleak: both the city and the cosmodrome are in a deplorable state. And then the irreparable happened - they killed Radiy’s former colleague, who was going to give him some secret information. And this turned out to be not the last crime that Inozemtsev’s granddaughter Vika will have to uncover. But are the murders related to astronautics?