The Land of the Soviets is living better and better, more and more fun - at least in the images of propaganda. The first Soviet comedy is being filmed. Bravura marches are written, life-affirming operettas are staged. Meanwhile, an actress was killed in Leningrad. Is this a crime of passion? Or is it related to stolen jewelry? Or does the reason lie in secrets that the powers that be in the new Soviet world would prefer to bury forever? Criminal investigator Vasily Zaitsev will have to look behind the scenes of the past.