Serious passions are blazing on the Don. Local criminals, through blackmail, force private owners to sell their lands to them for next to nothing. The next victim was farmer Ignat Gulyaev. In desperation, he shot one of the bandits who had robbed him of his property, and then shot himself. However, district police officer Rodion Fomin does not believe the testimony of a random witness to this incident and develops his own version. Fomin’s assistant, investigator Skorokova, also has a special opinion. It is no coincidence that she had special feelings for the deceased bandit...