Ilya Lunin could not refuse his own aunt, even though they had not seen each other for twenty years. In the village of Staroe Yasachnoye, in his grandfather’s house, Ilya spent the best holidays of his childhood - these memories firmly tied him to his family. And Tatyana Vasilyevna’s troubles were indeed serious: her son, Anatoly, was accused of murdering his bride. Lunin went to the regional center without much desire. As he expected, colleagues from the region received the investigator from the region with outright wariness and hostility. For them, he is a stranger who will doubt their work, the evidence collected in the case, and will shield his relatives. For his part, Lunin did not think that local law enforcement officers would falsify evidence simply out of thoughtlessness or malice. Only he knew that even in the most simple and clear at first glance, there are deeply hidden threads - just pull...