A dark streak came in the life of Larisa Belozerova: the TV show she hosted was closed due to low ratings, her husband fell in love with someone else, and all her savings were spent on buying out their rooms from neighbors in a communal apartment. No job, no family, no money... Hoping to take a break, Lara began renovations in her new apartment... and found a skeleton in the bricked-up fireplace niche! Lara decided to conduct a journalistic investigation and make it the topic of her new program. She managed to find out that the cause of that long-standing crime was a secret folder from the archives of German intelligence. And soon the operator who worked with Lara was killed in the same ill-fated apartment... Someone wanted to get the folder so much that they were ready to go to great lengths. But she got to Lara, and now it’s up to her to decide: destroy the document or make it public, execute or pardon... Previously, Olga Volodarskaya’s novel “The Call of Dark Water” was published under the title “The King is Dead, Long Live the King”