The young journalist Andrei Primerov received incriminating evidence on the deputy commander of the military district, Lieutenant General Poroshin. The publication of an incriminating article in the newspaper “Our City,” where Andrei worked, would have been a real bomb for the military official and his entourage. But this did not happen. All incriminating materials on the general were suddenly stolen, and Primerov himself came under investigation for the murder of the prostitute Alisa, who was hitting on him in a bar. The evidence turned out to be so serious that there was almost no chance to prove his innocence. Almost, except for one small and fragile hope...