1948 A fourteen-year-old girl was brutally murdered. Suspicion falls on the owner of the art association where she lived. However, the head of the department for combating banditry, Major Vitaly Shchelkunov, is sure that the killer is someone else. Shchelkunov listens to a witness who claims that she killed the girl and robbed the artel cash register. But can you trust a crazy woman? Although, from her words it is clear that she really was in the artel on the day the crime occurred. The investigator decides to take advantage of this circumstance and soon realizes what kind of monster he will face... A unique opportunity to return to one of the brightest periods of Soviet history - the post-war period. Real people, true crime cases, exciting plot twists. Characters similar to the iconic images of the film "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed." The spirit of the times, reverently preserved in many families. The “kitchen” of the daily work of the Soviet police is unusually and realistically shown.