On a hot August Sunday, young singer Larisa goes to the theater for the first rehearsal of Verdi's opera "Rigoletto". But along the way, she becomes the only witness to a terrible accident - an unknown person killed a man. Shocked Larisa manages to remember several signs of the car. It is not possible to see the driver’s face - at the time of the accident, he fell face down on the steering wheel, and the next second he moved off and disappeared. Larisa arrives belatedly at the theater, where she meets the new soloist Gleb Sitnikov and falls in love with him literally at first sight! But in his behavior she notices some oddities that lead her to terrible suspicions...Tatiana Bocharova’s detective melodramas from the “Detective of Strong Passions” series are fascinating action-packed novels where reality is recognizable, you can see yourself and your loved ones in the characters, traditional values, goodness are spelled out in the finale, evil wins and justice triumphs.