The ideal family life of investigator Boris Gladyshev collapsed overnight: his quiet, homely wife, the red-haired beauty Nadezhda, disappeared in an unknown direction, leaving her sons in the care of her mother-in-law. Before this, a suspicious unknown man came to the Gladyshevs’ apartment and handed Nadya a large sports bag. When Nadya’s friend told Boris that the bag contained a huge amount of money and ancient jewelry, he realized: his wife’s past, which the family tried not to remember, had not disappeared anywhere...