In Eve Fourier's present, accusations of past sins suddenly began to surface - she supposedly killed her fiancé 17 years ago and inherited a decent fortune, which he had bequeathed to her in advance. And so she gathers witnesses to those ancient events in her villa in order to finally understand this issue. At the same time, her husband invites Doctor Gideon Fell for his purposes, whose intellect, in the end, although it will help to understand the intricacies of the events of the present and past, will not prevent tragic death.