For the first time in forty-seven years of his life, Doctor of Psychology V. E. Shataev was seriously confused: what do the latest, rather strange events mean? Did someone suddenly urgently need to get him out of the way, or was it paranoia that arrived belatedly? Every psychologist sooner or later goes crazy himself. He doesn’t like any of the options, but here he has to put up with one more circumstance: he loses contact with his eldest son, who is serving under a contract in the Airborne Forces. However, private detective M.L. Dyuzhinny, who is working hard to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of a crowd of poor, unpromising youth, has his own version about all this devilry.