Once at a French fair, the writer Alena Dmitrieva bought three simple bracelets, and the prettiest one was snatched from under the nose of another customer - a strange-looking shaved girl. She gave two of them to her friends’ little daughters to wear. One of the penny jewelry was stolen in broad daylight. Nonsense, of course, but it’s a shame. The little goddaughter is crying bitterly - she admired the bracelet for just an hour, and then the bald lady tricked her into stealing it. Well, Alena solved not such crimes! She immediately sets off on the trail of the brazen thief. And for some reason the trail leads to the ancient castle of Talle, where a much more serious robbery took place - the “flying white tiger” - an ancient Chinese porcelain figurine - disappeared. Moreover, a dead body was discovered, and Alena was the first to stumble upon it!..