Lawyer Agata Rud defends the interests of the once popular singer Rasmus, in the world - Roman Gorelov, who rented out his apartment in an elite residential complex to the family of Englishman Steve Sherman. Not only did the tenants leave the apartment earlier than agreed, but they left it in a terrible state and took some of Rasmus’s things with them! Now, with the help of Agatha, he intends to obtain compensation for damages from the Shermans... Agatha's friend and colleague, lawyer Boris Ustinovich, meanwhile is defending Professor Zelinsky. He is accused of facilitating the escape from an English prison of police sergeant McCornick, who was found guilty of murdering two people... Agatha and Boris go on a business trip to the English town of Arbington, where it turns out that their cases are very closely related...