Khodasevich, a retired colonel of the special services, could barely hide his irritation - his ex-wife called him in the middle of the night and asked him to find her friend Alla Dolinina! The woman lived alone all summer in a dacha village near Moscow, and two days ago she left home and disappeared. The colonel, bored in retirement, nevertheless took up the investigation. He was immediately alarmed by the behavior of some of Alla’s neighbors, especially her soulmate, the artist Lyubochka. She said that fifteen years ago Dolinina’s husband also inexplicably disappeared, and Khodasevich realized: Alla’s family had hidden a lot from him.