Alexandra could not tell the truth to anyone and betray her husband. One Christmas day, Roman arrived home with a guest, and they immediately went to the sauna. Alexandra hurried after him with fresh towels and robes. Steam billowed from the open window and voices were heard. She froze like a pillar of salt and could not take a single step. Alexandra would have recognized the voice that struck her among thousands of others. And the fact that the owner of this voice was in their house, speaking with Roman as equals, knocked her off balance and made her heart beat faster. An unwittingly overheard conversation and a guest who came like a ghost from the past turned her whole life upside down. Unable to find the strength to move, Alexandra could not accept that two people - her husband, the district prosecutor and the inveterate scoundrel whose place was in prison - could have common interests. And when I realized what kind of interests connected them, I could no longer stay in my house and continue to live as before.