Private detective Tatyana Ivanova first encountered such a case, when almost everyone who knew the victim came under suspicion. The old woman Aholia Yagudina was killed in a savage way; some kind of iron object was stuck in her eye. But something else seems strange - Yagudina was hated by everyone who came across her. Even her relatives call her nothing less than Baba Yaga and scare her family with her name. With her scandalous temper, Aholia ruined her relationships with all her relatives and friends. Even without knowing her, Tatyana herself was itching to stick something sharp in her eye. Apparently, someone couldn't resist. None of the relatives, as it turns out, have an alibi for the time of the murder, and some of them were once professional fencing...