Show business is in agony! The great and terrible producer, media mogul, master of mega-projects, ruler of the stars and father of sensations Joseph Schlitz was killed on the threshold of his own home. The name of the killer, mumbled before death, is the only clue in the investigation. Meanwhile, competitors, sticklers and opportunists pounced on his media empire, tearing it to pieces. There seems to be no place for either the widow or the son at this rich feast. Experienced lawyer Artem Pavlov desperately rushes to their defense, but understands that it is almost impossible to change the situation. After all, empires don’t just die! The defender turns out to be right: the world of show business is buzzing like a disturbed beehive, the famous singer Kirill Farforov fled from investigation abroad, companions are at each other’s throats - one burned in his own nightclub “Gogoleff”, the other is crippled, and Schlitz’s “roof” is a thief in law Bessarab - mysteriously disappeared. The laws of business are cruel, the morals of show business are merciless! The investigation is powerless, but intuition and the sequence of seemingly random events convince Artyom that this entire nightmare is controlled by someone’s prudent and strong will...