Early in the morning, the owner of the Chaika restaurant, part-time private detective Larisa Kotova, received a call from the wife of administrator Gorodov and said: her husband had just been taken to the police station on suspicion of murdering a neighbor. A young woman is found stabbed to death on the landing; only Gorodov’s fingerprints are on the knife. The only witness, another neighbor, testified during police interrogation that the suspect had a bad relationship with the murdered woman... On the way home, Larisa reflects: her subordinate is capable of anything, he is absurd, conflict-ridden, and sometimes angry and unfriendly. But Larisa is sure that he is not capable of murder. Now the only thing left is to prove it...