An unknown ill-wisher began to systematically destroy the life of major businessman Pavel Molchansky. The published photographs of Pavel with his mistress led to his wife leaving him. Letters to his children that they were step-children destroyed his relationship with his daughter and son. Problems in business, the theft of valuable netsuke figurines from his favorite collection, an explosion in a car - all this became the beginning of a series of crimes in which Pavel himself is suspected... And only one person supports him - his devoted assistant Vera Yarysheva sincerely believes that they have a purely business connection with their boss relationship...