“Go, poisoned steel, to your destination...” With these words, Hamlet stabs the king, the murderer of his father. In the Ostozhenka Theater, the King, played by People's Artist Nathan Seidel, was actually stabbed to death. Someone planted a sharpened rapier on Hamlet, and a real murder took place on stage, to the applause of the audience. Crime expert Drongo analyzes the incident again and again. Undoubtedly, the organizer of the crime was a truly brilliant director. So, he is from the theatrical environment?.. Drongo will have to unravel a monstrous tangle of intrigues, quarrels, love conflicts, envy and arrogance - all that without which theater is impossible...