At the very beginning of the new century, and maybe at the end of the old one (in fact, everyone was confused about the timing of the millennium), Katya Malysheva received an assignment from her former partner Valentin, or rather, he asked to provide him with a paid courtesy, namely to meet an honored old lady whom no one at the Argus agency could please. Katya took up the matter without much desire, but very soon it began to become more complicated. The whirlpool of events carried Katya along with it, and Valentin had to look for her in sad doubts whether she was alive or no longer...