The eldest son of Nikolai Petrovich, Arkady, comes after Oxford to the elite village near Moscow, where the Kirsanov brothers live - a major official Pavel Petrovich and a fashionable artist Nikolai Petrovich, and with him his friend Evgeniy. The guest immediately does not find a common language with Pavel Petrovich. Men bicker, conflict, insult each other. And on the eve of his anniversary, Pavel Petrovich unexpectedly commits suicide! And this is not the last strange death in the Kirsanov mansion, which private detective Pasha Sinichkin and his assistant Rimma will have to investigate...