An unexpected meeting between Kirill Obolentsev, an investigator for particularly important cases under the Prosecutor General, and emigrant Rudolf Mayer in New York turns into a chain of exciting events that change everyone’s lives. The facts presented by Mayer were similar to the truth. But that’s why Obolentsev is an investigator for particularly important cases, to immediately figure out where the lies are and where the truth is. And when he begins his quiet investigation, it rolls like heavenly thunder through the corridors of power... The life of Alexander Zvyagintsev’s heroes is always full of surprises, because their life credo is the fight against evil. There is no force that can stop them. But wherever fate takes them, to the heights of power or to the fields of war, they always remain people of honor...