Katya Poluyanova begins a journalistic investigation of an episode that deeply worried and outraged her. She meets the main character of her investigation, intending to convict him of dishonesty and find out what caused his action. But Evgeny turned out to be not the soulless cynic that Katya’s imagination portrayed him as, but a very interesting young man, and she... fell in love. Well, now it’s absolutely necessary to understand the long-standing history, which became a source of grief for Evgeniy’s family...