Almost all her life, the famous writer Mrs. Joanna lived in a cramped apartment on the fourth floor, in an old building without an elevator, with noisy neighbors. And finally she moved into a cozy mansion. She would enjoy the peace and comfort there, but it’s not like that. Right next to Mrs. Joanna's house, in her own trash heap, the corpse of a red-haired woman is discovered. It quickly becomes clear that the murdered woman is a well-known journalist and a former prosecutor. And the reputation of the former prosecutor during her lifetime was wow! Most of all, the late Barbara Borkovskaya loved to show up in some public place and start a drunken brawl there; she also loved to take bribes and insult decent citizens. So the journalist-prosecutor was heading to Mrs. Joanna with the goal of causing an ugly scandal. The writer would probably have topped the list of suspects if not for one small “but.” While the corpse of one Barbara Borkovskaya was lying in the trash, another Barbara Borkovskaya appeared in the city - alive and well. Extremely intrigued, Mrs. Joanna decides to spin a strange story, behind which there is a banal woman’s motive. And she succeeds brilliantly: while the police make mistake after mistake, Mrs. Joanna finds out the truth about the red-haired doubles and realizes with horror that all the threads stretch to her old house...