In a short time in the Pskov region, several people die at once at the hands of an unknown criminal. Among them is the second secretary of the city party committee and the local district police officer. The investigation of this high-profile case was entrusted to police major Pavel Zverev and his assistant Veniamin Kostin. Detectives find out that the dead were front-line comrades and in peacetime sometimes met to hunt together. Who could the veterans annoy? Or is this sabotage against party workers? Zverev works through one version after another until he encounters a new, carefully disguised terrible crime... A unique opportunity to return to one of the most striking periods of Soviet history - the post-war period. Real people, real 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 shown in an unusual and realistic way.