Oleg, nicknamed Soulless, head of the special investigations department, and his lover, writer Alisa Vertinskaya, working under the pseudonym Hel, bought a new house on New Year's Eve. But they didn’t even have time to take things apart when they found themselves drawn into another creepy investigation. Alice's friend Vika, the owner of a glossy magazine, found a corpse on the threshold of her house. Oleg's department took over the investigation. They learned that the murdered woman was a former classmate of Hel and Vicky. There was one alarming detail in the case - $20 was found on the corpse. Alice remembered that back at the university, there was a scandal in their course: one guy insulted a girl by throwing the same banknotes at her as if they were a fallen woman. There is a version that the roots of the crime must be sought in the past of Vika and Alice...