Journalist Gleb Korsak did not want to go to the hospital where his school friend Andrei Temchenko was lying. But Andrei had just come out of a coma and did not remember anything about himself, he only recognized Gleb’s name on a newspaper page... Korsak did not like his old friend’s request at all, but he still agreed to go to the scene of the accident, after which Andrei fell into unconsciousness for many years , and figure out what happened then... Major Masha Lyubimova did not know whether she was glad to meet her ex-husband Gleb, so she concentrated on examining the terrible place where Korsak called her and the investigative team. A little to the side of the highway, in the forest, ashes were discovered: a burned-out hunting lodge and in a pile of ash the remains of a young woman - she had been pierced in the chest with an aspen stake...