In a small town where little happens, high-profile murder is a real sensation. An ambulance picks up a man with an incomprehensible wound. It turns out that someone severely castrated the victim. The patient dies from blood loss on the surgeon's table, without revealing the name of the perpetrator.Detectives from the district police department, an investigator from the prosecutor's office and local district police officer Aleksey Ternov enter the case. Surprisingly, the attacker can be quickly detected. And the young policeman meets the girl Vera.Aleksey has pleasant family chores ahead of him. However, fate makes its own adjustments. Happiness has to be fought for. What trials will Ternov have to go through and what evil will he face on the way?