An elderly man was buried in the city cemetery. When they began to lower the coffin into the grave, one of those present noticed a woman’s handbag at the bottom. The senior detective for particularly important cases, Major Obruchev, urgently went to the cemetery. He found in his purse a student travel card in the name of Elena Kashina - the same one who had been wanted for a week. Soon, the investigative team discovers in the taiga the remains of people with traces of gunshot wounds torn to pieces by a connecting rod bear...