Olga Boykova, editor-in-chief of the Witness newspaper, decided to show a courtesy to her distant relative by agreeing to hand over the handbag he found near Tatyana Samoilova’s hit-and-run car. A few days later, the apartment of lawyer Grigorovich, who had gone south with his family, was robbed. Olga saw a piece of paper with his address in Samoilova’s purse. It would seem that the fact is unremarkable, but Boykova, accustomed to seeing crime in everything, suspects that these two incidents are undoubtedly related. Olga and her colleagues begin a journalistic investigation, but suddenly the victim of the hit-and-run dies in the hospital...