A neighbor on the site approaches journalist Pechorin with an unexpected request: to go with him to the site of his wife’s recent death. However, an ordinary trip ends with an even stranger scene at the local police department. The old man suddenly demanded from the head of the department, Major Rudakov, that he confess to the crime, “otherwise it will be worse for the major.” Having somehow gotten rid of his crazy neighbor, Pechorin returns home, but it turns out that his troubles are just beginning. In the middle of the night, the opera burst into the journalist’s room and accused Pechorin of complicity in the murder of Major Rudakov...