Once upon a time, actress Lionella Balandovskaya and her neighbor Kirill were in love with each other, but their relationship was destroyed by the wife of his grandfather, the famous director Efim Olshansky. Inna Olshanskaya, an aging actress, hated her competitors and got rid of her by cunning... Many years later, Lionella encountered Kirill in a St. Petersburg hotel under very frightening circumstances - the corpse of a call boy was found in one of the rooms. Olshansky was accused of murder: all the evidence pointed to him. Lionella decided to help Kirill prove his innocence, because they were still connected by something more than just the memories of their youth. To their surprise, traces of the crime led to the Olshanskys’ house near Moscow, where the jewelry of his step-grandmother Inna disappeared without a trace. All that remains is a portrait of Greta Garbo with an imprint of her lips - the famous actress was once involved in a passionate affair with Efim Olshansky...