The beginning of the NEP. On the way from Taganrog, a passenger steamer burned down and almost completely sank. Yegor Lisitsa, a member of the new Soviet police, is busy identifying the bodies of the dead as a forensic doctor. However, among them it is not possible to find the body of an official from Stroytrest and his wife. Their names are on the passenger list, but they are not among the dead or the living. A little later, the official is found in the city hospital. From a blow to the head and long hours in cold water, he lost his memory. He doesn’t know where his wife is, and he doesn’t even remember her...