Right at the table of the capital’s cafe, Valeria Fedorovna Kudimova dies in broad daylight. The investigation quickly finds out that immediately before her death, in the same cafe, she met with two young ladies - American Laura Cortina, identified as a CIA employee, and Russian Vika Spesivtseva, who worked only for herself. Which of these two destroyed her? Or maybe there was someone third? Or, perhaps, the reason and solution to Kudimova’s death lies in the past - in those fabulously distant times when blue trolleybuses and Volga cars with deer drove through the streets, poetry readings gathered stadiums, the most revered profession was an astronaut, and two superpowers, the USA and the USSR , intertwined in a deadly battle that threatens the death of all humanity...