A series of mysterious murders occurs in a provincial town. General Bekasov, well-known in the capital, disappears. A witness dies in the prosecutor's office. Under suspicion are police officers, FSB officers and even the district prosecutor Turetsky, who has taken on a complex, complicated case, and himself falls into traps from which it becomes more and more difficult to extricate himself each time. Events take on a surreal character and not everything that happens is what it seems. Turetsky has no doubt that all the murders are interconnected, but he cannot find even a hint of this connection. The only way out is to expose yourself to the blow and fall into the net set by the killer.