Having gone on a routine editorial assignment, journalist Tatyana witnesses the death of businessman Lugansky and his daughter. The restaurateur Skvortsov is suspected of murder, but Tatyana does not believe in his guilt. And with good reason: the roots of the tragedy stretch deep into the past - during the Civil War and collectivization. It was then that the first blood was shed in the Lugansk family, which split, along with the entire country, into two camps.