The body of former prisoner Yegor Soshnikov was found in the city cemetery with traces of violent death. The operatives examined the crime scene and found a gravestone next to the corpse, the ground under which had clearly been dug by someone, as if something had been taken from there. The surprise of the police knew no bounds when it became known that the image of this particular gravestone was tattooed on the chest of the murdered man... Lieutenant Colonel Stepan Krucha takes over the investigation of the mysterious crime, and his intuition tells him that this is not an ordinary case...