The events that take place in the new novel by the famous master of the detective genre Sergei Aleksandrovich Vysotsky (born 1931) seem to tell the reader: not everything is so simple in our world, look both ways and draw conclusions. Advertising of modern river liners - “banquet ships” - arouses keen interest of the billionaire banker Nekvas, thief in law Makarkin and film director Zabirukhin. Nekvas planned to hold a corporate party on a “banquet boat” and, by blowing it up, get rid of the annoying group of colleagues in one fell swoop, the thief Makarkin - to rob the rich people who had organized a “ball on the water”, and director Zabirukhin - to begin filming the blockbuster of all times “Pirates of the Moscow Seas”... By chance, private detective Vladimir Frize finds himself drawn into all three of these “events.” “Misunderstanding” is a story about love and betrayal, about the fact that you also have to pay for good deeds.